Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 463 g
Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 463 g
Reihe: Avant-garde and Modernism Studies
ISBN: 978-0-8101-2389-2
Verlag: Northwestern University Press
Guy Davenport (1927-2005), an American writer of fiction, poetry, criticism, and essays, a translator, painter, intellectual, and teacher, brought a breadth and depth of knowledge to his pursuits that few other writers could approach, let alone appraise. In Andre Furlani, this twentieth-century American master has finally found an apt critical reader. In this first sustained critical study of Davenport, Furlani elucidates the depths of Davenport's fiction and its poetic precedents, brings a rare understanding to the author's reworking of twentieth-century literature and intellectual history, and offers unusual insight into his compositional technique. Furlani explores key themes across the spectrum of Davenport's fiction: pastoral utopia; twentieth-century dystopia; sexual ethics; the mythologizing of childhood; the inseparability of the archaic and the modern; and a celebration of the union of sophia, eros, and poesia. Whether Davenport's view of art and the cosmos should be called ""postmodern"" is a question that Furlani considers closely - offering, finally, a new aesthetic for this American original who, in these pages, at last receives the thorough and meticulous attention he has long merited.
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Introduction: For Davenport; 1. The Invention of the Archaic; 2. The Prose Ideogram; 3. ""By Pan"": Eclogues; 4. To Write Paradise; 5. Everything Could Be Otherwise; 6. ""This too Can Be Shown"": Sexuality; 7. Postmodern to Metamodern; Bibliography; Index.
