Mystical Discourse in Wordsworth and Whitman

Mystical Discourse in Wordsworth and Whitman
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Publisher : Peeters Publishers
Total Pages : 260
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ISBN-10 : 9042918098
ISBN-13 : 9789042918092
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Book Synopsis Mystical Discourse in Wordsworth and Whitman by : D. J. Moores

Download or read book Mystical Discourse in Wordsworth and Whitman written by D. J. Moores and published by Peeters Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Mystical Discourse D.J. Moores builds on the work of current transatlantic scholarship in a lucid analysis of the connections between William Wordsworth and Walt Whitman. As he demonstrates, the "transatlantic bridge" between both poets lies in their privileging of a type of mystical language he calls "cosmic" rhetoric, which served the function of ideological resistance, as it enabled them to rebel against Enlightenment modes of thinking and being. In a thorough engagement with the work of Wordsworth and Whitman, Moores shows that the cosmic rhetoric of both writers involves a subversive reorientation towards self and society, nature and God, and knowledge and religion, as well as a radical revisioning of language and poetics.


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