The Orphic Moment by Robert Mcgahey
This book examines Orpheus as a figure who bridges the experience of the Greek tribal shaman and the modern poet Stephane Mallarme, the father of modernism. First mentioned in 600 B.C., Orpheus was present at the moment when the Apolline forms of western culture were being encoded. He appears again at the opposite moment embodied in the language-crisis at the end of the nineteenth century, which inaugurated the break-up of those forms and ushered in the Dionysian. Mallarme's Orphic Moment, when Orpheus's scattered limbs first begin to stir back to life, enacts a dance at the boundary of Apollo and Dionysos, marking the collapse of Apolline form back into its Dionysian ground in Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy.Robert McGahey is Associate Professor of Humanities at Moorhead State University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780791419427 |
| ISBN 10 | 0791419428 |
| Title | The Orphic Moment |
| Author | Robert Mcgahey |
| Series | Suny Series The Margins Of Literature |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | State University of New York Press |
| Year published | 1994-07-01 |
| Number of pages | 209 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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