Sudden Eden

Donald Revell

Description

The essays in Sudden Eden explore the ways in which the memory of Paradise, or experience of the paradisiacal, has shaped canons of experimental writing from the late Middle Ages through to the present day. Keyed to figures as various as Dante and Beckett, Thomas Traherne and Barbara Guest, Sudden Eden proposes a new constellation of Metaphysical, Symbolist, and Postmodern lights—a single, continuous Heaven.

Informations

• Publié par: Parlor Press, LLC
• Date de parution: 13 août 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781643171098
• Langue: English

Extrait

SUDDEN EDEN ESSAYS

DONALD EVELL

SUDDEN EDEN

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SUDDEN EDEN

ESSAYS

Donald Revell

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Contents

Acknowledgments vii Wine Instead of Whiskey for a While 3 1 The Apostasy of Here and Now: Easters with Traherne 11 Now Rest: Samuel Beckett’s Creation Myth 20 Poésie Pureand Others 25 Barbara Guest: A Family of Mountaineers / on “Roses” 35 Ballads of the Provisional City: James Schuyler’sA Few Days and John Ashbery’sSelected Poems 42 Robert Creeley: The Eventual Victorian 56 Heaven’s Commonplace:Hoc Opus, Hic Labor Est 63 2 Will Not End: The Expanse of Fragments 71 Without a Golden Age: Genre in Diaspora 79 Betraying the Silence 95 Outrageous Innocence/Innocence Outraged 102 Canon Fodder 118 Toys and Planets: Joseph Cornell and the Contemporary Poet 122 Their Smiles Intact: A Canon’s Afterlife 127 Coda 140 Works Cited 145 About the Author 151

Acknowledgments

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Ameican Lees & Commenay Ameican Poe The Ameican Poey Review The Ben Jonson Jounal Chicago Review Denve Quaely Omnidawn Omnivese Pequod Poey

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