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Paperback / softback. New. In this essay on "what the imagination has made of the phenomenon of echo," John Hollander examines aspects of the figure of echo in light of their significance for poetry. Looking at echo in its literal, acoustic sense, echo in myth, and echo as literary allusion, Hollander concludes with a study of the rhetorical status of the figure of echo and an examination of the ancient and newly interesting trope of metalepsis, or transumption, which it appears to embody. Centered on ways in which Milton's poetry echoes, and is echoed by, other texts, The Figure of Echo also explores Spenser and other Renaissance writers; romantic poets such as Keats, Shelley, and Wordsworth; and modern poets including Hardy, Eliot, Stevens, Frost, Williams, and Hart Crane. This book has implications for literary theory and holds great practical interest for students and teachers of American and English literature of all periods. This title is part of UC Press's…
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The Figure of Echo: A Mode of Allusion in Milton and After Volume 18 Paperback - 2018
by John Hollander
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"The virtuosity of the scholarship, the critical resourcefulness, the acuteness of observation--all these add new vitality and new dimensions to the familiar subject of literary 'borrowing.' The old subject will not be the same again."--Arnold Stein
"This is a brilliant inquiry into a subject that had never before been systematically investigated. Critics of poetry will be continually exhilarated by the possibilities opened up here."--Richard PoirierDetails
- Title The Figure of Echo: A Mode of Allusion in Milton and After Volume 18
- Author John Hollander
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 166
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press
- Date 2018-07-10
- ISBN 9780520302242 / 0520302249
- Weight 0.41 lbs (0.19 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5 x 0.38 in (20.32 x 12.70 x 0.97 cm)
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- Cultural Region: British
- Dewey Decimal Code 821.009
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