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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1. Verfasser: Smith, Evans Lansing (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York [u.a.] Lang 1997
Schriftenreihe:Studies on themes and motifs in literature 32
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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
Beschreibung:X, 199 S.
ISBN:0820434973