The Poem on the Edge of the Word

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The preoccupation with the limits of language and the ensuing exploration of silence are central concerns in modern and contemporary poetry. The Poem on the Edge of the Word inquires into the causes that gave rise to a momentous linguistic anxiety at the end of the nineteenth century and explores three poets' responses to this new awareness of the fragility of the word.

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Dianna Niebylski

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«This study contributes importantly to the critical discussion of the troubling crisis of language which is such a salient feature of all modern poetry. What distinguishes this study, among the vast array of critical explorations of this issue, is the textual specificity of its analyses of the work of three major poets, together with the subtle powers of discernment Professor Niebylski brings to bear on their poetry, in order to reveal the stunning variety of their devices which make silence speak meaningfully to us, and which articulate vividly the anguish of inarticulateness. Professor Niebylski's finest achievement, in this study, is the development of a remarkably supple yet clear critical discourse, quite free of jargon, which enables her to dissect and explicate with ease the most elusive and disturbing themes in modern poetry.» (Murray Sachs, Brandeis University)
«Dianna Niebylski illuminates the prolonged crisis of language with which modern western poetry still contends. Beginning with Hölderlin's question 'wozu Dichter in dürftiger Zeit?', she describes three moments in that crisis, represented by the work of Mallarmé, Rilke and Vallejo. Her method is comparative, the themes she clarifies complex and her insights anchored in both solid knowledge of philosopy from Hegel and Nietzsche to positivism and existentialism and close analyses of such key works as 'Un Coup de Des, Die Sonette an Orpheus' and 'Poemas humanos' ... It is an important and illuminating book.» (Paul A. Lacey, Earlham College)
«...a splendid introduction to the poets as well as to their techniques.» (J. Hafley, Choice)
«This volume on the aesthetic of silence in the work of three major poets provides an important and useful metaphor for comparative studies of modern poetry.» (Rose Passalacqua, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos)

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