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Cline, Kurt

 
9783659768798: The Poet and the Shaman: Radical Language Praxis
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ISBN 10 : 3659768790 ISBN 13 : 9783659768798
Editeur : LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2015

Synopsis

Traces continuity between the shaman's song as it appears in myth, legend, shamanic narratives and ethnographic literature, and mystical, visionary, avant-garde and experimental poetries within the Western tradition. I suggest a poetics of liminality in the ancient epics of Gilgamesh, Inanna and Homer, in the magico-religious philosophies of Hermes Trismegistus and Giordano Bruno, and in the Great Vision of Black Elk, and trace a lineage of poets from the Romantics, to the Modernists, to the Post-Moderns, showing how poetry exacts a continual tension between individual spirituality and cultural constraints on shamanic power and vision. Closely associated with shamanic praxis in the West is a discontinuous body of Gnostic speculation. Texts by Blake, Coleridge, Poe, Rimbaud, Carrington, Kaufman, Burroughs, and Notley show the shaman's perennial theme of the Otherworldly Journey ever reconfigured according to the artist's relationship to a specific culture, and that culture's relationship to the shamanic paradigm.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Traces continuity between the shaman's song as it appears in myth, legend, shamanic narratives and ethnographic literature, and mystical, visionary, avant-garde and experimental poetries within the Western tradition. I suggest a poetics of liminality in the ancient epics of Gilgamesh, Inanna and Homer, in the magico-religious philosophies of Hermes Trismegistus and Giordano Bruno, and in the Great Vision of Black Elk, and trace a lineage of poets from the Romantics, to the Modernists, to the Post-Moderns, showing how poetry exacts a continual tension between individual spirituality and cultural constraints on shamanic power and vision. Closely associated with shamanic praxis in the West is a discontinuous body of Gnostic speculation. Texts by Blake, Coleridge, Poe, Rimbaud, Carrington, Kaufman, Burroughs, and Notley show the shaman's perennial theme of the Otherworldly Journey ever reconfigured according to the artist's relationship to a specific culture, and that culture's relationship to the shamanic paradigm.

Biographie de l'auteur

Kurt Cline is Associate Professor of English and World Comparative Literature, National Taipei University of Technology in Taipei, Taiwan. Scholarly articles on intersections between literature, consciousness studies and film appear in Anthropology of Consciousness; Glimpse: Phenemenology and Media; and Comparative Civilizations and Cultures.

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Éditeur
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3659768790
ISBN 13 
9783659768798
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
240
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