The Fragmentary Poetic: Eighteenth-Century Uses of an Experimental Mode

by Sandro Jung

The Fragmentary Poetic: Eighteenth-Century Uses of an Experimental Mode is the first study of the mode of the fragmentary in eighteenth-century poetry. Revisiting traditional literary historiography, it offers a fresh account of the "Pindaric" impulse, a mode informing deliberate fragmentation. It distinguishes itself from the work of Thomas McFarland, Marjorie Levinson (on the Romantic fragment poem), and Elizabeth Wanning Harries (on the prose fragment...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 161146062X
• ISBN13: 9781611460629
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Lehigh University Press
• Length: 173 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"