Trauma, transcendence, and trust : Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Eliot thinking loss

• Tác giả: Thomas J Brennan
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN: 0230104967 (hbk.)
• ISBN: 9780230104969 (hbk.)
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 821.009 English poetry
• Thông tin xuất bản: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
• Mô tả vật lý: xi, 206 pages ; , 22 cm.
• Bộ sưu tập: Văn học
• ID: 281546
• Chủ đề: 1. English poetry--History and criticism--19th century; 2. Loss (Psychology) in literature; 3. Psychic trauma in literature; 4. Transcendence (Philosophy) in literature; 5. Trust in literature

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Tóm tắt

"Trauma, Transcendence and Trust takes up the idea of trauma as one of the lenses through which the twenty first century interprets experience. One place to excavate the roots of this sensibility is in three poets of mourning whose work bridges the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Wordsworth's haunted wanderings, Tennyson's trance, and Eliot's negative epiphanies: these experiences receive fresh attention in Trauma, Transcendence and Trust. Can a new ethic of trust address the repetition of trauma? In the process, can it replace our fantasies of transcendence? These poets repeatedly pose such questions in the hope that someone will listen"-- Provided by publisher.