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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Main Author: Hughes, Glenn, 1951- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: 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"--
Physical Description:vii, 232 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780826222206
082622220X