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Gnostic contagion : Robert Duncan and the poetry of illness
- Title
- Gnostic contagion : Robert Duncan and the poetry of illness / Peter O'Leary.
- Author
- O'Leary, Peter, 1968-
- Publication
- Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, [2002], ©2002.
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- Description
- xviii, 268 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Literature and medicine > United States > History > 20th century
- Health in literature
- H. D (Hilda Doolittle), 1886-1961 > Influence
- Duncan, Robert, 1919-1988 > Influence
- Diseases in literature
- Medicine in literature
- Gnosticism in literature
- Mackey, Nathaniel, 1947- > Criticism and interpretation
- Duncan, Robert, 1919-1988 > Criticism and interpretation
- American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-260) and index.
- Contents
- Prologue: A Familiar Illness -- 1. Duncan and H.D.: Gnostic Therapy -- 2. Robert Duncan, Theoretician of Illness -- 3. The Myth of "My Mother Would Be a Falconress" -- 4. Deep Trouble/Deep Treble: Nathaniel Mackey's Gnostic Rasp -- Epilogue: Does the Poem Heal?
- ISBN
- 0819565636 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0819565644 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2002023465
- OCLC
- ocm49351761
- SCSB-4286603
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries