Figuring poesis: a mythical geometry of postmodernism
Figuring Poesis focuses on the interrelations between myth and geometrical symbolism in literature since the end of the Second World War. Detailed readings of a wide range of works contextualize allusions to the myths of the apocalypse, the great goddess, alchemy, the labyrinth, and the descent to t...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Figuring Poesis focuses on the interrelations between myth and geometrical symbolism in literature since the end of the Second World War. Detailed readings of a wide range of works contextualize allusions to the myths of the apocalypse, the great goddess, alchemy, the labyrinth, and the descent to the underworld. The geometrical symbols that occur in conjunction with these myths serve as images of poesis and hermeneusis The conclusion brings postmodernist paintings and architecture into the discussion, and develops an iconography of form |
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PETER LANG
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Bern • Frankfurt am Main • Berlin • Vienna • Paris
Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Chapter 1: Forthrights and Meanders 11
Jorge Luis Borges 12
Alain Robbe-Grillet 14
Vladimir Nabokov 15
Giinter Grass 20
Gabriel Garcia Marquez 23
UmbertoEco 27
James Merrill 32
Chapter 2: Our Lady of the Honeycomb 39
Giinter Grass 40
Thomas Pynchon 46
Doris Lessing 47
Leonora Carrington 48
Hilda Doolittle 53
Chapter 3: Squaring the Circle 61
Jorge Luis Borges 62
Leonora Carrington 67
Hilda Doolittle 73
Gabriel Garcia Marquez 76
James Merrill 79
Chapter 4: Voices From the Well 87
Jorge Luis Borges 89
Leonora Carrington 94
Julio Cortazar 100
Thomas Pynchon 110
Doris Lessing 113
Umberto Eco 114
x Contents
Derek Walcott 117
James Merrill 130
Chapter 5: Re-Figuring Revelation 135
David Jones 136
Gabriel Garcia Marquez 139
Julio Cortazar 145
UmbertoEco 153
James Merrill 155
Peter Weir 159
Conclusion 163
A Mythical Geometry of Postmodernism 163
Postmodernist Painting and Architecture 167
Hieroglyphs and Holographs 174
Notes 179
Works Cited 187
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