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The Life of Words
- Etymology and Modern Poetry
Engelsk Hardback
The Life of Words
- Etymology and Modern Poetry
Engelsk Hardback

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For centuries, investigations into the origins of words were entwined with investigations into the origins of humanity and the cosmos. With the development of modern etymological practice in the nineteenth century, however, many cherished etymologies were shown to be impossible, and the very idea of original ''true meaning'' asserted in the etymology of ''etymology'' declared a fallacy. Structural linguistics later held that the relationship between sound and meaning in language was ''arbitrary'', or ''unmotivated'', a truth that has survived with small modification until today. On the other hand, the relationship between sound and meaning has been a prime motivator of poems, at all times throughout history. The Life of Words studies a selection of poets inhabiting our ''Age of the Arbitrary'', whose auditory-semantic sensibilities have additionally been motivated by a historical sense of the language, troubled as it may be by claims and counterclaims of ''fallacy'' or ''true meaning''. Arguing that etymology activates peculiar kinds of epistemology in the modern poem, the book pays extended attention to poems by G. M. Hopkins, Anne Waldman, Ciaran Carson, and Anne Carson, and to the collected works of Geoffrey Hill, Paul Muldoon, Seamus Heaney, R. F. Langley, and J. H. Prynne.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
314
ISBN-13:
9780198812470
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0198812477
Udg. Dato:
13 maj 2020
Længde:
25mm
Bredde:
240mm
Højde:
162mm
Forlag:
Oxford University Press
Oplagsdato:
13 maj 2020
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