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Suny Series, the Margins of Literature Ser.: Orphic Moment : Shaman to Poet-Thinker in Plato, Nietzsche, and Mallarme by Robert McGahey (1994, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherSTATE University of New York Press

ISBN-100791419428

ISBN-139780791419427

eBay Product ID (ePID)610317

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Number of Pages209 Pages

Publication NameOrphic Moment : Shaman to Poet-Thinker in Plato, Nietzsche, and Mallarme

LanguageEnglish

SubjectEuropean / French, Individual Philosophers, Folklore & Mythology, History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, General

Publication Year1994

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Philosophy, Social Science

AuthorRobert Mcgahey

SeriesSuny Series, the Margins of Literature Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height1 in

Item Weight11.2 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN93-046495

Reviews"This is an extraordinary book on Orpheus, one that is willing to circumvent explanations and fixed positions. Itself it teaches us how to live and imagine Orphically on the invisible and impossibly thin line that separates and unites all opposites. ...Robert McGahey writes with authority, sculpting out a precise place and time that is the Orphic moment, and he also straddles the difficult but necessary ambiguity of historical time and poetic eternity. The sheer joy of the book comes in part from the multiple fugal counterpoints of many schools of poetic and philosophical sensibility. ...Mr. McGahey writes as an Orphic musician; not one who plays literally on a lyre, but one who calls forth the harmonic and tuneful voice of being itself." -- Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul and Soul Mates, from the Foreword "This thoughtful and intelligently argued book brings breadth of scholarship to focus on a parallelism (that between Mallarmé and Nietzsche) that both typifies and defines a specific moment in Western thought. It is a successful union of poetry and philosophy." -- Marshall C. Olds, University of Nebraska

Dewey Edition20

TitleLeadingThe

Grade FromCollege Graduate Student

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal801/.951

Table Of ContentForeword Acknowledgments Introduction Prologue 1. Orpheus as Gap, Border, and Bridge 2. Plato's Orphic Universe 3. Brothers in Decadence: Mallarmé, Nietzsche, and the Orphic Wagner 4. The Orphic Moment of Stéphane Mallarmé 5. Tombs, Fans, Cosmologies: A View from the Prison House 6. Conclusion Notes Works Cited Index

SynopsisThis book examines Orpheus as a figure who bridges the experience of the Greek tribal shaman and the modern poet Stéphane Mallarmé, 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. Mallarmé'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., This book examines Orpheus as a figure who bridges the experience of the Greek tribal shaman and the modern poet St phane Mallarm , 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. Mallarm '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.

LC Classification NumberPN1035.M34 1994