The Poetic Fantastic: Studies in an Evolving GenrePatrick Dennis Murphy, Vernon Hyles Bloomsbury Academic, 1989 M11 20 - 201 pages A groundbreaking contribution to the critical literature, this volume represents the most extensive study of the fantastic in poetry published to date. Designed to serve both as an introduction to and a historical overview of fantastic poetry in the Anglo-American tradition, the authors closely analyze specific periods and poems in order to illuminate more clearly the relationships among fantasty, the fantastic, science fiction, and poetry. The scope of the study is unusually broad and encompasses material from Spenser through the work of a wide range of contemporary American and British poets. |
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... Language is therefore associated with the point where a sub- jective “ I ” and an objective other are linked , thus ... language is the humanity of humans , but also to the accurate relativity of all thought and linguistic constructs ...
... language ( that is , the Hebrew language ) pre - exists and that the world was created by God through the power of the word— or , to be more precise , the Divine Name . But creation is also possible by similar means in the lower mirror ...
... language that no longer signifies or connotes what it once did . Finally , modern poetry provides the best area on ... language of information , is not used in the language - game of giving information . " This is absolutely true for ...
Contents
The Poetry of the Fantastic Vernon Hyles | 1 |
Poetry and the PreFantastic Peter Malekin | 11 |
Lamia as Muse Martha Nochimson | 29 |
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