A Genealogy of the Prose Poem. Issue 2 (August 2017)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- A Genealogy of the Prose Poem. Issue 2 (August 2017)
- Main Title:
- A Genealogy of the Prose Poem
- Authors:
- Mengham, Rod
- Abstract:
- Abstract : This article looks at aspects of the genealogy of the prose poem. It does so by tracing correspondences, across a range of texts, in the ways by which characters and writers record themselves 'profoundly sensible' of an 'awful parenthesis that had suspended them', as De Quincey put it, in a place and in a moment of time. The experience of insulation, sequestration, and deep recesses, and then the looping together of ideas of suspension, trance, and syncope are witnessed at work in texts by Dickens, De Quincey, Baudelaire, Henry Mayhew, and Tim Dee, with patterns of influence or similarity discerned therein that are all suggestive of the prose poem's dynamics of containment and extension. Reference is made to representations of this involving both city and field, and to the poetic styles, including parallelism, that work to evoke encroaching and receding horizons.
- Is Part Of:
- CounterText. Volume 3:Issue 2(2017:Aug.)
- Journal:
- CounterText
- Issue:
- Volume 3:Issue 2(2017:Aug.)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 3, Issue 2 (2017)
- Year:
- 2017
- Volume:
- 3
- Issue:
- 2
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2017-0003-0002-0000
- Page Start:
- 176
- Page End:
- 186
- Publication Date:
- 2017-08
- Subjects:
- prose poem -- city -- field -- parallelism -- Dickens -- De Quincey -- Baudelaire -- Turgenev -- Tim Dee -- John Berger
English literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism -- Periodicals
Culture -- Philosophy -- Periodicals
820.9 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.euppublishing.com/loi/count ↗
http://www.euppublishing.com/journals ↗ - DOI:
- 10.3366/count.2017.0087 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 2056-4406
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- Legaldeposit
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