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Intention and Unintention or the Hyperconscious in Contemporary Lyric Impulse.

Caldwell, Grant.

Intention and Unintention or the Hyperconscious in Contemporary Lyric Impulse. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (120 pages)

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. The Question Outlined and the Key Terms Addressed: Intention, Unintention and Hyperconscious -- Chapter One. Sourcing the Unconscious in the Hyperconscious: Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams and the Process of Intention and Unintention -- Chapter Two. Lacan and Poetry: Jumping the Bar -- Chapter Three. The Embodiment of Emotions in Poetry -- Chapter Four. The Unconscious Metaphor: The Hyperconscious in Action -- Chapter Five. The Poet-paradox: Unintention and the Embodiment of Emotional Truth -- Conclusion -- Appendix: "Last Fathom" by Ian McBryde -- Bibliography.

The question of how lyric poetry is written, especially in the moment when it first arrives with a poet, is vexed. Grant Caldwells discussion of the hyperconscious and of poetic unintentionality in the contemporary lyric impulse constitutes an original contribution to knowledge in this field.

9781922454959


Poetry-History and criticism.
Poetry-Authorship.
Lyric poetry-History and criticism.


Electronic books.

PN1059.A9 C353 2018

808.1

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