Mystical Discourse in Wordsworth and Whitman
Subtitle: A Transatlantic Bridge (Studies in Spirituality Supplements)
Publisher: Peeters Publishers
Published: April 9, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9789042918092
Subjects: Religion & Spirituality / Spirituality; American - General; Poetry; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Mysticism in literature; Romanticism
Description: "In Mystical Discourse D.J. Moores builds on the work of current transatlantic scholarship in a lucid analysis of the connections between William Wordsworth and Walt Whitman. As he demonstrates, the 'transatlantic bridge' between both poets lies in their privileging of a type of mystical language he calls 'cosmic' rhetoric, which served the function of ideological resistance, as it enabled them to rebel against Enlightenment modes of thinking and being. In a thorough engagement with the work of Wordsworth and Whitman, Moores shows that the cosmic rhetoric of both writers involves a subversive reorientation towards self and society, nature and God, and knowledge and religion, as well as a radical revisioning of language and poetics."--Jacket.