From Dickinson to Dylan
Subtitle: Visions of Transcendence in Modernist Literature
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780826222206
Description: "Glenn Hughes examines the ways in which six literary modernists-Emily Dickinson, Marcel Proust, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Samuel Beckett, and Bob Dylan-have explored the human relationship to a transcendent mystery of meaning. Hughes argues that visions of transcendence are, perhaps surprisingly, a significant feature in modernist literature, and that these authors' works account for many of the options for interpreting what transcendent reality might be"--