From Dickinson to Dylan : visions of transcendence in modernist literature /
"Glenn Hughes examines the ways in which six literary modernists-Emily Dickinson, Marcel Proust, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Samuel Beckett, and Bob Dylan-have explored the human relationship to a transcendent mystery of meaning. Hughes argues that visions of transcendence are, perhaps surprisingl...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Columbia, Missouri :
University of Missouri Press,
[2020]
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| Summary: | "Glenn Hughes examines the ways in which six literary modernists-Emily Dickinson, Marcel Proust, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Samuel Beckett, and Bob Dylan-have explored the human relationship to a transcendent mystery of meaning. Hughes argues that visions of transcendence are, perhaps surprisingly, a significant feature in modernist literature, and that these authors' works account for many of the options for interpreting what transcendent reality might be"-- |
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| Physical Description: | vii, 232 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780826222206 082622220X |