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- catalog abstract "The British poet and artist David Jones (1895-1974), much praised in his lifetime by such important contemporaries as T.S. Eliot and W.H. Auden, is only now beginning to receive the attention that his challenging and carefully wrought work deserves. Jones saw his own era as "the turn of a civilization": a pivotal moment in Western history when a once unified and humane culture, rooted in nature and ritual, was in the midst of corruption, losing its sacred center. He was perhaps best known in his lifetime for his long poem In Parenthesis (1937), which draws on the poet's experience in the trenches of the First World War. Jones's later work is an ongoing exploration of his fascination with the mythic and religious themes already evident in this early poem. His last volume, The Sleeping Lord and Other Fragments (1974), affirms the enduring value of native cultural traditions against the dehumanizing tendencies of imperialism. At the turn of a civilization examines Jones in the context of modernism, comparing his vision of history as an "order of signs" to T.S. Eliot's nostalgia for "tradition" and Ezra Pound's call for a "new paideuma." Jones believed that in the act of making art that embodies and "re-calls" the past, the poet affirms, even creates, an abiding continuity with what is deepest and most valuable in human experience - even in a world overrun by industrialism and imperialism. This "sacramentalist" view of poetry informs Jones's use of myth and history, his use of "masculine" and "feminine" imagery, and his anti-imperialist vision. Kathleen Henderson Staudt places the poet in the context of both modern and postmodern poetry, presenting him not as a nostalgic traditionalist but as a profoundly innovative artist. Jones's view of poetry as a sacramental activity is shown to speak provocatively to structuralist and poststructuralist definitions of poetic language. Analogies are suggested between Jones's emphasis on poetic creation as an act and postmodernist thinking about open form, and his major works are considered in relation to the poetics of the modern long poem. The book also explores the meanings of "masculine" and "feminine" figures in Jones, with particular attention to the remarkable female speakers in "The Anathemata."".
- catalog contributor b4807504.
- catalog created "c1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "c1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1993.".
- catalog description "At the turn of a civilization examines Jones in the context of modernism, comparing his vision of history as an "order of signs" to T.S. Eliot's nostalgia for "tradition" and Ezra Pound's call for a "new paideuma." Jones believed that in the act of making art that embodies and "re-calls" the past, the poet affirms, even creates, an abiding continuity with what is deepest and most valuable in human experience - even in a world overrun by industrialism and imperialism. This "sacramentalist" view of poetry informs Jones's use of myth and history, his use of "masculine" and "feminine" imagery, and his anti-imperialist vision.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Kathleen Henderson Staudt places the poet in the context of both modern and postmodern poetry, presenting him not as a nostalgic traditionalist but as a profoundly innovative artist. Jones's view of poetry as a sacramental activity is shown to speak provocatively to structuralist and poststructuralist definitions of poetic language. Analogies are suggested between Jones's emphasis on poetic creation as an act and postmodernist thinking about open form, and his major works are considered in relation to the poetics of the modern long poem. The book also explores the meanings of "masculine" and "feminine" figures in Jones, with particular attention to the remarkable female speakers in "The Anathemata."".
- catalog description "Prologue: "At the Turn of a Civilisation" -- pt. 1. "Tradition," "Paideuma," "Order of Signs" Ch. 1. Past and Present: Jones and the Modernists. Ch. 2. "Art and Sacrament" Ch. 3. "Singing Where He Walks": Making and Remembering in In Parenthesis. Ch. 4. "Making This Thing Other": The Anathemata -- pt. 2. "Rite Follows Matriarchate": Reenvisioning Myth -- Introduction to Part 2: The Maker and the Myth. Ch. 5. The Wasted Land and the Queen of the Woods: From In Parenthesis to The Book of Balaam's Ass. Ch. 6. Imagining History: Spengler, Dawson, and Joyce. Ch. 7. "Her Fiat Is Our Fortune": Feminine Presences in The Anathemata. Ch. 8. Open Questions: The Sleeping Lord -- Conclusion: "Before His Time?": The Jones Legacy.".
- catalog description "The British poet and artist David Jones (1895-1974), much praised in his lifetime by such important contemporaries as T.S. Eliot and W.H. Auden, is only now beginning to receive the attention that his challenging and carefully wrought work deserves. Jones saw his own era as "the turn of a civilization": a pivotal moment in Western history when a once unified and humane culture, rooted in nature and ritual, was in the midst of corruption, losing its sacred center. He was perhaps best known in his lifetime for his long poem In Parenthesis (1937), which draws on the poet's experience in the trenches of the First World War. Jones's later work is an ongoing exploration of his fascination with the mythic and religious themes already evident in this early poem. His last volume, The Sleeping Lord and Other Fragments (1974), affirms the enduring value of native cultural traditions against the dehumanizing tendencies of imperialism.".
- catalog extent "viii, 216 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "At the turn of a civilization.".
- catalog identifier "0472104683 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "At the turn of a civilization.".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "c1993.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press,".
- catalog relation "At the turn of a civilization.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "821/.912 20".
- catalog subject "Jones, David, 1895-1974 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Modernism (Literature) Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "PR6019.O53 Z89 1993".
- catalog subject "Poetics History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Poetics.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Prologue: "At the Turn of a Civilisation" -- pt. 1. "Tradition," "Paideuma," "Order of Signs" Ch. 1. Past and Present: Jones and the Modernists. Ch. 2. "Art and Sacrament" Ch. 3. "Singing Where He Walks": Making and Remembering in In Parenthesis. Ch. 4. "Making This Thing Other": The Anathemata -- pt. 2. "Rite Follows Matriarchate": Reenvisioning Myth -- Introduction to Part 2: The Maker and the Myth. Ch. 5. The Wasted Land and the Queen of the Woods: From In Parenthesis to The Book of Balaam's Ass. Ch. 6. Imagining History: Spengler, Dawson, and Joyce. Ch. 7. "Her Fiat Is Our Fortune": Feminine Presences in The Anathemata. Ch. 8. Open Questions: The Sleeping Lord -- Conclusion: "Before His Time?": The Jones Legacy.".
- catalog title "At the turn of a civilization : David Jones and modern poetics / Kathleen Henderson Staudt.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".