Approaching Authority: Transpersonal Gestures in the Poetry of Yeats, Eliot, and WilliamsThis study, using the example of Yeats, Eliot, and Williams, examines the principal gestures of Modernist poetic speakers attempting to identify, mediate, and project cultural authority. To effect this mediation, the poetic speakers must engage in "transpersonality"; by association with the objects of presences in the poem, they must translate their finite egos into mediating voices detached from the concerns of unique selfhood. However, complete transpersonality brings silence: the fact of utterance presupposes a unique perspective, never the totality of perspectives that an atemporal authority possesses. So, rather than the speaker's elevation to a position of authority, the necessary result of the transpersonality is instead that the speaker approach authority in calculated acts of mystification. |
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Page 161
... poet's mission to bring coherence and purpose to a chaotic and disjointed world , and it measures his chances of success by dramatizing the poet's situation between the divorced realms of mind and object . This place is the intersection ...
... poet's mission to bring coherence and purpose to a chaotic and disjointed world , and it measures his chances of success by dramatizing the poet's situation between the divorced realms of mind and object . This place is the intersection ...
Page 183
... poetic of co - extensive authority requires the poet's constant participation , a relentless repositioning on the shifting ground between mind and experience to ensure contact between the two . It liberates the speaker from idealism ...
... poetic of co - extensive authority requires the poet's constant participation , a relentless repositioning on the shifting ground between mind and experience to ensure contact between the two . It liberates the speaker from idealism ...
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... poet is identified with Peter Brueghel , who customarily painted from the local , from scenes " among his own kids " ( 226 ) . The poet by extension is framed as an artist grounded in eternal , mythical sources . Second , based on the ...
... poet is identified with Peter Brueghel , who customarily painted from the local , from scenes " among his own kids " ( 226 ) . The poet by extension is framed as an artist grounded in eternal , mythical sources . Second , based on the ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
Logos and Ego | 44 |
Egocentered Authority | 72 |
Copyright | |
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