The Will to Transcendence in Contemporary American Poet, Ai
I came not to astonish But to destroy you. Your Jug of cool water? Your Hanker after wings? Your Lech for transcendence? — Galway Kinnell, "The Supper After the Last" There is a famous dialectical analysis of the American "lech for transcendence" by Kenneth Burke called "I,...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Canadian Association for American Studies
2011
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Canadian review of American studies
Year: 2011, Volume: 17, Issue: 4, Pages: 437-448 |
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Girard, René (1923-2015)
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| Summary: | I came not to astonish But to destroy you. Your Jug of cool water? Your Hanker after wings? Your Lech for transcendence? — Galway Kinnell, "The Supper After the Last" There is a famous dialectical analysis of the American "lech for transcendence" by Kenneth Burke called "I, Eye, Ay—Concerning Emerson's Early Essay on 'Nature' and the Machinery of Transcendence." Burke's impacted pun of a title suggests the way sublime-hungry Emerson's ego, his first-person /, is changed through the self-transcending vision of the imaginative eyeball, his eye, into a sustained cry of cosmic affirmation, an ay.1 |
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| ISSN: | 1710-114X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Canadian review of American studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3138/CRAS-017-04-03 |