Thesis
The end of modernism in English poetry
- Abstract:
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'End' as 'goal' and 'limit' is explored in signs, symbols, metaphors, metonymies, and myths in the works of G.M. Hopkins, Yeats, Eliot, and Pound, before the study examines the aesthetics of modernist poetry which - through psychoanalysis, economy, and language philosophy - presents itself as one facet of the 'modernist project'. Modernist poetry struggles with its material, the lacking motivation of signs, the unstable connection of signifier and signified. Already in Hopkins this create...
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- Publication date:
- 1992
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
- Language:
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English
- Subjects:
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- Source identifiers:
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602328844
- Deposit date:
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2014-04-01
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- Copyright holder:
- Rainer Emig
- Copyright date:
- 1992
- Notes:
- This thesis was digitised thanks to the generosity of Dr Leonard Polonsky.
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