How does modern poetry from Donne to Ashbery provide occasions for rethinking the scope and limits of the literary canon? This question is not simply concerned with literature in English but addresses the problem of how texts transform the reader’s experience of literature in the wake of modernity. This study shows how an experience of absence is the starting point for a reversal that occurs whenever reading transforms an engagement with the world. The eight chapters that comprise this study offer revisionary readings of key poetic works and a new way of understanding the modern canon.
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Table of contents
- Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
- Poetry and the Sense of Reversal
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- About the Author
- 1. Introduction: Literatureâs Double Burden
- 2. Donne and Modern Criticism: An Archaeological Quest
- 3. Coleridge and Hermeneutics: Paradoxical Redemption
- 4. Shelleyâs Self-Doubt: Beyond the Dark Tower
- 5. Browning and Lost Work: After Historicism
- 6. Yeatsian Performances: Poetry, Nature, Time
- 7. Eliot and Cultural Memory: Trauma, Specter, Text
- 8. H. D. and Psychoanalysis: A Heterodox Sensibility
- 9. Ashbery and Proust: Revisiting the Postmodern
- 10. Conclusion: Reversal in Context
- Bibliography
- Index1
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