Hopkins Against History

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Creighton University Press / Association of Jesuit University Presses, 1995 - 243 páginas
Scrutinizing the claim frequently made by critics that literary forms represent forms of consciousness, Eugene Hollahan attempts in Hopkins Against History a double-edged project. He applies popular critical methods - psychoanalytical, New Historical, interdisciplinary, and the like - as procedures in an examination of that rare poetic spirit Gerard Manley Hopkins. At the same time, and dialectically, the author uses Hopkins's life and oeuvre as a test case or paradigm case by which to measure some of the critical methods that attract much interest today. Hopkins Against History presents a new perspective on Gerard Manley Hopkins, the self-conscious unbordered soul struggling against history but in the process becoming a kind of antithetical hero, producing poems in sprung rhythm, a strange new poetic of lasting value.

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Hopkins Against the Tradition for Lyrical Assortments
54
Hopkins Against Frederick
127
Notes
191
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Eugene Hollahan was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and educated at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His essays and reviews have appeared in PMLA, Novel, Studies in Philology, and other standard journals. He has edited collections of essays on Saul Bellow, Gerard Manley Hopkins, andLawrence Durrell for the journal Studies in the Literary Imagination. A member of the National Book Critics Circle, Hollahan teaches Literary Criticism at Georgia State University, Atlanta.

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