The Ecstatic Poetic Tradition : A Critical Study from the Ancients through Rumi, Wordsworth, Whitman, Dickinson and Tagore

Moores, D.J.

McFarland & Co Inc（2014/05発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 264 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780786478163
• DDC分類 809.1

Full Description

This work is not only a general inquiry into ecstatic states of consciousness and an historical outline of the ecstatic poetic tradition but also an intensive study of five representative poets--Rumi, Wordsworth, Whitman, Dickinson, and Tagore. In a refreshingly original, wide-ranging engagement with concepts in psychology, religion, philosophy, aesthetics, sociology and history, this book demonstrates that the poetics and aesthetics of ecstasy represent an ancient, ubiquitous theory of poetry that continues to influence writers in the current century.

Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Part One: Ecstatic Beginnings

1. The Overture

2. Ecstatic States of Consciousness

Part Two: Historical Outline

3. The Ancient Poetics and Aesthetics of Ecstasy

4. Autochthonous, Non-Western and Modern Ecstatic Poetry

Part Three: Critical Studies

5. The Whirling Dervish: Rumi

6. The Power of Imagination: William Wordsworth

7. The Body Ecstatic: Walt Whitman

8. The Cracked Mind: Emily Dickinson

9. The Wise Man of the East: Rabindranath Tagore

Part Four: Critical Implications

10. Extra-literary Implications

11. Literary Implications: A Problematic Rapture

12. Ecstasy and the Eudaimonic Turn

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index