The Spiritual Work of Art in the Poetry of Robert Duncan

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dc.contributor.authorGlaser, Brian Brodhead
dc.date.accessioned2016-02-05T08:08:09Z
dc.date.available2016-02-05T08:08:09Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractIn this essay I argue Hegelian phenomenology helps us to see that language can be a form of postmodern spirituality. I aim to contextualize postmodern poetry in a dialogue between spirituality and art that, I suggest, we can join Hegel in viewing as older than Christianity. Both Phenomenology of Spirit and Robert Duncan’s postmodernism show us that language is a spiritual means for transcendence of the self. In the first section of the essay I look at how Duncan used syntactic choices in the writing of poems as the occasion for self-transformation, contrasting the models of poetic structure in two of his books of the 1960s, The Opening of the Field (1960) and Bending the Bow (1968), on the basis of what these two different structural models foreground about Duncan’s syntactic decisions. In the second section of the essay, I analyze Hegel’s phenomenological narrative of the hymn, focusing on his discussion of the role that language plays in this dimension of spiritual life. In the concluding section, I return to Robert Duncan’s later poetry, arguing that Hegel’s conception of the hymn can help us to see that Duncan moved in his creative work from using syntax as a means for self-transformation to turning to it as a resource for self-transcendence.pl_PL
dc.description.epersonMirosław Miernik
dc.identifier.citationGlaser, Brian Brodhead. "The Spiritual Work of Art in the Poetry of Robert Duncan," Polish Journal for American Studies, nr 9, 2015, 75-85.pl_PL
dc.identifier.issn1733-9154
dc.identifier.urihttps://open.icm.edu.pl/handle/123456789/8759
dc.language.isoenpl_PL
dc.publisherPolish Association for American Studiespl_PL
dc.rightsUznanie autorstwa 3.0 Polska
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/pl/
dc.subjectspiritualitypl_PL
dc.subjectpoeticspl_PL
dc.subjectformpl_PL
dc.subjectRobert Duncanpl_PL
dc.subjectHegelpl_PL
dc.titleThe Spiritual Work of Art in the Poetry of Robert Duncanpl_PL
dc.typearticlepl_PL
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