Figuring poesis
Subtitle: a mythical geometry of postmodernism
By: Evans Lansing Smith.
Series: Studies on themes and motifs in literature,; v. 32
Publisher: P. Lang; Lang Publishing, Incorporated, Peter
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
Subjects: Postmodernism (Literature); Postmodernism.; Hermeneutics.
Description: Figuring Poesis focuses on the interrelations between myth and geometrical symbolism in literature since the end of the Second World War. Detailed readings of a wide range of works contextualize allusions to the myths of the apocalypse, the great goddess, alchemy, the labyrinth, and the descent to the underworld. The geometrical symbols that occur in conjunction with these myths serve as images of poesis and hermeneusis.

The conclusion brings postmodernist paintings and architecture into the discussion, and develops an iconography of form.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-199).