The Poetry of Ted Hughes: Language, Illusion & Beyond

ISBN-13: 9780582227750 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 136 str.

Paul Bently; Paul Bentley

Opis

This text provides an introduction to the poetry of Ted Hughes, whose work is concerned with the forces of nature and their interaction with man. It also places Hughes' poems in a theoretical context of significant developments in literary theory that occured during his lifetime.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements  Introduction  Hughes and the movement  The East European Influence  Hughes and Myth  Hughes and Shamanism  1. EARLY HUGHES  'Archaic Energies'; Language, Narcissism and Emptiness; 'A Utility General-Purpose Style'; The Influence of Sylvia Plath; Hughes and Romanticism; Language and Mysticism  2. CROW  Carnival and Trickster; The 'Dialogic' Word; Through the Looking Glass; Depression: A Style; 3. GAUDETE  'Some Kind of Tunnel'; Lens and Landscape; The Use of Stereotypes; The Double; Language and the Double; 'Adventure Time' in Gaudete; The Double's Defeat; The Language of Gaudete; The Grotesque of Gaudete; The Epilogue Poems and the 'Future Anterior'  4. CAVE BIRDS  A Transformation Mystery; Lacan and Jung; The Semiotic and the Symbolic; The Hermetic Vessel as Semiotic Chora; The Shamanic Event; The Discourse of Depression; The Problem of the Feminine  5. LATER HUGHES  The Real as Obstacle; The Real as Trauma; The Photograph as Real; An 'Internally Persuasive Discourse'; The Imaginary-Real  6. HUGHES AS LAUREATE  Index

O autorze

Paul Bentley is lecturer in literary studies at the University College of St. Mark & St. John, Plymouth.