Affect, Psychoanalysis, and American Poetry: This Feeling of Exaltation

by John Steen

Book Overview

Poetry has often been defined by its closure, its condensation of meaning and value into discrete, self-referential textual objects. Affect, Psychoanalysis and American Poetry challenges the dominant metaphor of poetic containers by turning to recent poetic texts that represent the contagious and uncontainable feelings of anxiety, grief, shame, and rage. From modernists Wallace Stevens to mid-century poets Randall Jarrell, Robert Creeley and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350146889
• ISBN13: 9781350146884
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"