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Figures of Time: Disjunctions in Modernist Poetry

✍ Scribed by David Ben-Merre

Publisher
State University of New York Press
Year
2018
Tongue
English
Leaves
322
Series
SUNY series, Literature in Theory
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

Focuses on how nuances of poetic form alter how we have come to understand cultural aspects of time. Figures of Time proposes radically new ideas about the very poetic ground of culture. Presenting unique close readings of six modern poets--Wallace Stevens, W. B. Yeats, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), Ezra Pound, Langston Hughes, and T. S. Eliot--David Ben-Merre brings recent theoretical questions about the rhetoric of modernism and poetic figuration into current discussions in critical theory. He argues that poetic spaces, often disjunctions of sound and sense, disrupt our culturally inherited notions of time, reimagining with an often irrational and anachronistic backward glance what we take to be historical chronologies, psychological perceptions of time, and collective scripts about causality. David Ben-Merre is Associate Professor of English at Buffalo State College, State University of New York.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface | On “Timeliness”
Acknowledgments
Introduction | Figuring Anachrony
Kurt Gödel and Other Liars: The Metaleptic Methods of Modernity
The Seventh Labor of Hercules
Methods
Strange Temporalities: Metalepsis
The Time of the Modern
Part I: Figures of Opposition
Chapter One | Paradox
“Inherent Opposites
Postscript: Serendipity
Post-Postscript: Ports of Call
Chapter Two | Revision
“The Brawling of a Sparrow in the Eaves”: Revision and the Romantic Imagination in W. B. Yeats
Vision: Flights into Fairyland
Revision: “The Scholars”
Re: Vision
Part II: Figures of Recollection
Chapter Three | Memory
Shellfish Readings: On H.D.
Echoes
Deferred Contexts: Freud’s Nachträglichkeit and Saussure’s Anagrams
Trilogy
Chapter Four | Tradition
“Strange Spars of Knowledge and Dimmed Wares of Price”: Ezra Pound
Part III: Figures of Self
Chapter Five | Voice
We’re
Proem: Smiles
Similitude
Home Work
Chapter Six | Lyric Identity
“The Patient Is No Longer Here”: T. S. Eliot’s Late Lyric Moment
Little Gidding
Disturbing the Dust
The Second Violin
Now Here This: Zero Summer
Notes
Works Cited
Index

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