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The Rhetoric of the City: Robinson Jeffers and A. R. Ammons

The Rhetoric of the City: Robinson Jeffers and A. R. Ammons

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Publisher's Synopsis

There are many similarities in the development of urbanism and literature in the last two hundred years, resulting from a correspondence between modes of city-planning and modes of literary expression. The symbolic city, connected to the transcendental sphere of myth, evolved into the allegorical city that was transcendentally disconnected. In literature, initially there was no distinction between the symbol and allegory, but for nineteenth-century writers both were antithetical. Later, the symbol and allegory were merely ornaments, embodying a nostalgic drive for the unity of a subject and the products of its perception. Robinson Jeffers's poetry, like the early twentieth-century city, relies on the symbol while A. R. Ammons's poetry, like the late twentieth-century city, is allegorical in its essence. These similarities are not coincidental, but prove that the city and literature belong to the same socio-cultural sphere.

Book information

ISBN: 9783631597552
Publisher: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Imprint: Peter Lang Edition
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Edition: 1st edition
Language: English
Number of pages: 208
Weight: 438g
Height: 155mm
Width: 217mm
Spine width: 16mm