Rarity and the poetic the gesture of small flowers
"Rarity is a quality by which things-flowers, leaves, light, sound-fleetingly appear and disappear, leaving in their wake a resonance of something we just thought we had glimpsed. In this book, the author examines the imaginary or poetic dimensions of rarity. It comes about in the hushed spaces...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Basingstoke
Palgrave Macmillan
2016
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| Ausgabe: | First published |
| Schriftenreihe: | Palgrave pivot
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "Rarity is a quality by which things-flowers, leaves, light, sound-fleetingly appear and disappear, leaving in their wake a resonance of something we just thought we had glimpsed. In this book, the author examines the imaginary or poetic dimensions of rarity. It comes about in the hushed spaces between stanzas, in the pauses between words and lines, in speechlessness. A flower, a silence in a room, a mournfully muttered 'oh,' thorns and dark seeds, even rugs and tables, a hummingbird, the papery gown of a brother dying, all have rarity. Rilke's phrase 'the gesture of small flowers when they open in the morning' serves as an exemplary image of material and mental rarity. "... |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | VIII, 98 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9781137589286 978-1-137-58928-6 |