Bringing Home the Word
Magic, Lies, and Silence in Hart Crane
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16006871 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eric J Sundquist (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1977 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 376-376 |
| Publication date | 1977-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | ELH (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-8304 • E-ISSN: 1080-6547 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2872673 |
| OpenAlex | W2315487116 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
That questions receive answers at best ambivalent and that who finally turns back questioningly upon authority of self, is incident upon irrecoverable, almost unnamable, nature of mythic source which Crane is after. But his struggle cannot be disconnected from a tradition of attempts to place that source in some god, particularly in God Father and the patriarch race. Alongside his working out of a redemption of fallen American community in which an insane technology has usurped poetic throne of belief, there is in all of Crane's work, emphatically in The Bridge, an attendant psychoanalytic inquiry into problem of genealogy. Such an inquiry is economic record of a curious double movement which reenacts story of sacrifice of ancestral fathers with one eye toward sexual reunion with a maternal, free origin, other toward debt aroused by parricide necessary to an acquisition of power over that origin. Crane couched his pursuit of the Word-that coveted but ambiguous mark of authority and originality issuing from divine poetic madness-in a style whose psychological gaming2 many have found to be overwrought past point of sense. It is not difficult, as is often done, to set up Crane's willfully obscure and distasteful
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Linguistics · MAGIC (telescope · Physics · Psychoanalysis · Silence · Word (group theory · American and British Literature Analysis · Cultural Studies and Interdisciplinary Research · History · Philosophy · Poetry Analysis and Criticism · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.18 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2009 - 2013 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |