From Dickinson to Dylan: visions of transcendence in modernist literature

"Glenn Hughes examines the ways in which six literary modernists-Emily Dickinson, Marcel Proust, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Samuel Beckett, and Bob Dylan-have explored the human relationship to a transcendent mystery of meaning. Hughes argues that visions of transcendence are, perhaps surprisingl...

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1. Verfasser: Hughes, Glenn 1951- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Columbia, Missouri University of Missouri Press 2020
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Zusammenfassung:"Glenn Hughes examines the ways in which six literary modernists-Emily Dickinson, Marcel Proust, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Samuel Beckett, and Bob Dylan-have explored the human relationship to a transcendent mystery of meaning. Hughes argues that visions of transcendence are, perhaps surprisingly, a significant feature in modernist literature, and that these authors' works account for many of the options for interpreting what transcendent reality might be"--
Beschreibung:vii, 232 Seiten
ISBN:9780826222206