"The Echo-Harbouring Shell": Of Shells and Selves in Paul Valéry and W.B. Yeats.
In myth, Echo lives in hollow places. Gaston Bachelard advances the shell as one of those locations. W.B. Yeats and Paul Valéry, however, deploy it as a physical object and a poetic trope. For them, the shell is a figure of echo of both poetry and subjectivity. Yet where Yeats uses the figure in his...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Modern Literature Vol. 43; no. 2; pp. 1 - 21 |
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Indiana University Press
Winter2020
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