Quantum Poetics: Yeats, Pound, Eliot, and the Science of Modernism
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Quantum Poetics examines the Modernist appropriation of scientific metaphors as part of a general search for the preverbal origins of poetry. The poetic possibilities offered by developments in scientific discourse intrigued Yeats, Eliot and Pound, writers intent on remapping the general theory of poetry. Using models supplied by physicists, Yeats sought for the basic units of poetic force, both through his sequence A Vision and through his belief...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0521035333
ISBN13:9780521035330
Release Date:December 2006
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:320 Pages
Weight:1.04 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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