Author: BRAUN, JOHN T
Title: THE APOSTROPHIC GESTURE.
Description: The Hague - Paris, Mouton, 1971. 1st edition. Cloth with dustjacket, 24,5cmx16cm, Good copy. Braun is tormented and amused by the possibility that poetry must have something to do with salvation. 'The Apostrophic Gesture' presents a theory about what happens as a poem is performed - any poem. In this book much is said about W. B. Yeats and ten of his poems. 'The Apostrophic Gesture' is also a theory what happens when one speaks theoretically about poetry. In this work there is a discussion of the theories of Mallarmé, I. A. Richards, R. P. Warren, Kenneth Burke, Yeats and Braun. Contents: I). The theory of the Apostrophic Gesture. II). Modern theories of poetry. III). The Apostrophic Gesture in the poetry of Yeats. With appendix (The apostrophic readings compared to the findings of several Yeats critics), bibliography and index. 217 pag.

Keywords: auden william blake synecdoche einstein darwin ireland ceremony innocence coleridge ecstatic eliot epistrophe freud hegel irony james joyce éphane mallarmé rilke stigmata robert penn


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