Poetry and Phantasy
In this book the author examines the relation between historical materialism and psychoanalysis for the understanding of literature. He analyzes central poems in the canonical tradition, poems of courtly love, Romantic poetry, and the modernism and post-modernism of Eliot and Pound.
Product details
April 1989Hardback
9780521355988
240 pages
224 × 143 × 23 mm
0.43kg
Unavailable - out of print February 2011
Table of Contents
- 1. Poetry and psychoanalysis
- 2. Ideology and phantasy in poetry
- 3. Foucault, Ovid, Donne: versions of sexuality, ancient and modern
- 4. Courtly love and idealisation
- 5. The Augustan father
- 6. Romantic narcissism
- 7. Darwinian crises
- 8. Modernism/postmodernism: Eliot/Pound
- 9. Postcript.