Modern Poetry and the Idea of Language A Critical and Historical Study

-- Gerald Bruns's ground-breaking analysis compares two contrasting functions of language: the hermetic, where language is self-contained and self-referencing, and the Orphic, which originates from a belief in the mythical unity of word and being. Bruns lucidly depicts the distinctions and convergences between these two lines of thought by examining the works of Mallarme, Flaubert, Joyce, Beckett, and others.Bruns, Gerald is the author of 'Modern Poetry and the Idea of Language A Critical and Historical Study' with ISBN 9781564782694 and ISBN 1564782697.