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Poetry and Phantasy

Poetry and Phantasy

Poetry and Phantasy

Antony Easthope
April 1989
Unavailable - out of print February 2011
Hardback
9780521355988
Out of Print
Hardback

    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 1989
    Hardback
    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.
      Author
    • Antony Easthope