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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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"In The Underworld Descent in Twentieth-Century Poetry, Thurston assembles a wonderfully eclectic array of poems that share the motif of the underworld journey, and provides an elegantly delineated framework for understanding their relations both to each other and to the particular historical moments out of which they emerge. At the heart of Thurston s argument is a sharply drawn distinction between nekuia and katabasis, two phases of epic transactions with the underworld that he persuasively aligns with poetic tradition and political engagement. Often the mere act of identifying a poem as participating in the nekuia or katabasis traditions helps us to see a familiar text in a new light; I will never again read Adrienne Rich s "Diving into the Wreck," for example, without noticing how it restages the underworld journey. Thurston s readings are unfailingly illuminating and fresh, his juxtapositions surprising yet compelling. The result is a remarkably full representation of twentieth-century poetry in all its aesthetic and social variety." - Roger Gilbert, Cornell University
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Book Title: The Underworld in Twentieth-Century Poetry
Book Subtitle: From Pound and Eliot to Heaney and Walcott
Authors: Michael Thurston
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230102149
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Michael Thurston 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-62046-9Published: 29 January 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-38283-5Published: 29 January 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-10214-9Published: 21 December 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 216
Topics: British and Irish Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, North American Literature, Literary History, Poetry and Poetics