Desire and infinity in W. S. Merwin's poetry /

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Author / Creator:Feng, Dong, author.
Imprint:Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2021]
Description:xv, 203 pages ; 23 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12688452
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ISBN:9780807176115
0807176117
9780807176856
9780807176863
Notes:Originally published in Chinese and English in 2017 by Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"In the first monograph on W. S. Merwin to appear since his death in 2019, Feng Dong focuses on the dialectical movement of desire and infinity that ensouls the poet's entire oeuvre. His analysis foregrounds what Merwin calls "the other side of despair," the opposite of humans' articulated personal and social agonies. Feng finds these presences in Merwin's evocations of what lingers on the edge of constantly updated socio-symbolic frameworks: surreal encounters, spiritual ecstasies, and abyssal freedoms. By examining Merwin's lifelong engagement with psychic fantasies, anonymous holiness, entities both natural and supernatural, and ghostly ancestors, Feng uncovers a precarious relation with the unarticulated, unrealized side of existence. Drawing on theories from Lacan, Žižek, Levinas, and Heidegger, Desire and Infinity in W. S. Merwin's Poetry reads a metaphysical possibility into the poet's work at the intersection between contemporary poetics, philosophy, and psychoanalysis"--
Other form:Online version: Feng, Dong. Desire and infinity in W. W. Merwin's poetry Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2021 9780807176856

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