The Embattled Lyric: Essays and Conversations in Poetics and Anthropology

Tarn, Nathaniel

ISBN 10: 080475053X / ISBN 13: 9780804750530

Editore: STANFORD UNIV PR, 2007

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A theory of poetic production and reception based on both literary and anthropological studies and models.&Uumlber den AutorNathaniel Tarn is a distinguished poet with academic training in anthropology and comparative literature. He.

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• Titolo: The Embattled Lyric: Essays and Conversations in Poetics and Anthropology
• Editore: STANFORD UNIV PR
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 080475053X
• ISBN 13: 9780804750530
• Rilegatura: Gebunden
• Condizione: New

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Riassunto

This book has two main subjects which are interwoven: the attitudes of selected poets (including Neruda, Rilke, Breton, Celan, and Artaud) to the "primitive" and the “archaic,” studied from an anthropologist's viewpoint; and a model of the processes whereby poetry is produced and received, built on the author’s successful careers as both poet and anthropologist. The book includes detailed biographical information about how Tarn went from being a French to an English to an American poet. It also reveals the effect of a double career and of these moves on a unique body of poetry and theoretical work. An extremely substantial interview, serving also as an introduction to, and discussion of, the essays, demonstrates that there is nothing like this work to be found elsewhere.

Informazioni sull?autore

Nathaniel Tarn is a distinguished poet with academic training in anthropology and comparative literature. He was Professor of Poetry, Professor of Comparative Literature, and Professor of Anthopology at Rutgers University. His most well known books of poetry are The Beautiful Contradictions (1970), A Nowhere for Vallejo (1972), Lyrics for the Bride of God (1975), The House of Leaves (1976), and, most recently, Selected Poems, 1950-2000 (2002).