The ecstatic poetic tradition : a critical study from the ancients through Rumi, Wordsworth, Whitman, Dickinson and Tagore / D. J. Moores.

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Moores, D. J [Author]

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text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781476614731

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Electronic Books.

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PN56 .E278 2014

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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.

Subject: 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.

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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.

Cover -- 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.

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