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Reconfiguring Self, World, and Word: Modernist Poetic Epiphanies in Eliot, Williams, Levertov, and Revell.

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Title/Author:	Reconfiguring Self, World, and Word: Modernist Poetic Epiphanies in Eliot, Williams, Levertov, and Revell./
Author:	Drexel, Jessica G.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2019,
Description:	223 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-08, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International81-08A.
Subject:	Modern literature. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=27548673
ISBN:	9781392396230

Reconfiguring Self, World, and Word: Modernist Poetic Epiphanies in Eliot, Williams, Levertov, and Revell.
Drexel, Jessica G.

Reconfiguring Self, World, and Word: Modernist Poetic Epiphanies in Eliot, Williams, Levertov, and Revell. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019 - 223 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-08, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2019.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This dissertation examines the occurrence of epiphanies in modernist and contemporary poetry. The time period addressed in this dissertation traces the development of poetic epiphanies through a series of related poets: T. S. Eliot and William Carlos Williams represent opposing approaches to poetry in the modernist era, while Denise Levertov and Donald Revell represent the extended influence of the earlier poets through the late-twentieth century and the present day. By surveying these four poets, I aim to establish a conception of post-Romantic transcendent experience in the form of an epiphany. The dissertation includes both secular and religious poetry, and I show how even traditionally religious approaches to epiphany are radically reconfigured through poetic form and innovative representations of dualistic distinctions. My research uses the prose works by these poets to establish a framework for interpreting their poetry; I also use this prose framework to challenge and add to leading interpretations of the epiphany in modernist poetry. Furthermore, I include extensive close-readings of the poetry. I conclude that the epiphanies present in the work by these poets is fundamentally distinct from a traditionally Romantic or religious epiphany. Despite their many differences, these four poets employ an immanentist view of the cosmos, which means that dualistic distinctions exist, but that the space of transcendence and totality is at hand, and not cosmically distant. The implication is that modernist poetic epiphanies paradoxically reveal totality in the immediate, material world. These epiphanies are also distinctive because they gesture toward an ongoing mode of perception rather than a bounded, temporal event of sudden illumination. Through the close-readings of the poems, I show how each poet uses innovative aesthetic techniques-musicality, vernacular speech, imagism, spatialization, perception, and attention-to explore dimensions of transcendence, to articulate their experience of this space, and to connect their readers to this space.

ISBN: 9781392396230Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122750
Modern literature.
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Eliot

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