Poetics and the philosophy of reflection : with particular attention to W.H. Auden's The sea and the mirror as it reflects back to its predecessors and forward to postmodernism
This thesis examines how a poetics may emerge from both the possibilities and the limits peculiar to the metaphor of the mirror and the concept of reflection. Working from a particular history of Western ideas that moves from Plato through to postmodernism, the examination focuses on W.H. Auden, who...
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University of Glasgow
1996
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.312691 |