Obdurate Brilliance: Exteriority and the Modern Long Poem

by Peter Baker

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Working from a broad knowledge of modern poetry, Baker proposes an original interpretation of the long poem based on the notion of ""exteriority"". Readers of the 20th-century long poem must discard the traditional idea of a lyric speaker, or Romantic ""I"", he argues. Modern and postmodern poetry turns outward, toward the experience of others, and deliberately de-emphasizes an inner or personal life. His analysis, informed by postmodern literary theory, focuses on both American and French long poems. ""Obdurate Brilliance"" is the only major critical study in English of the poetry of Saint-John Perse, whose works are examined in depth...Read more
  • ISBN13 9780813010649
  • Publish Date 20 October 1991
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint University Press of Florida
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 252
  • Language English
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