Author : D. J. Moores
Release : 2006
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 092/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Mystical Discourse in Wordsworth and Whitman by : D. J. Moores
Download or read book Mystical Discourse in Wordsworth and Whitman written by D. J. Moores. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.