From Dickinson to Dylan: Visions of Transcendence in Modernist Literature

by Glenn Hughes

Book Overview

Glenn Hughes examines the ways in which six literary modernists--Emily Dickinson, Marcel Proust, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Samuel Beckett, and Bob Dylan--have explored the human relationship to a transcendent mystery of meaning. Hughes argues that visions of transcendence are, perhaps surprisingly, a significant feature in modernist literature, and that these authors' works account for many of the options for interpreting what transcendent reality...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082622220X
• ISBN13: 9780826222206
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: University of Missouri Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"