Approaching Prayer: Ritual and the Shape of Myth in A.R. Ammons and James Dickey
by Robert Kirschten
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Approaching Prayer is a critical study in a mythopoeic mode of two of the most distinguished southern poets of the second half of the twentieth century - A. R. Ammons and James Dickey. Not a comparative study in the traditional style, this work explores two lines of separate inquiry into how each writer employs myth and ritual in creating his art.
Kirschten finds that, although Ammons and Dickey differed radically in emotion, method, and format, their poetry shares ancient ceremonial strategies that require close comparison with a plurality of religious traditions.
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American Religious poetry, Criticism and interpretation, History and criticism, Intellectual life, Myth in literature, Prayer in literature, Ritual in literature, Mythos, Ritual, Lyrik, Dickey, james, 1923-1997, Religious poetry, history and criticism, Southern states, intellectual life, Mythology in literaturePeople
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Approaching Prayer: Ritual and the Shape of Myth in A.R. Ammons and James Dickey
1998, Louisiana State University Press
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0807122475 9780807122471
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-167) and index.
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