Their Labyrinth Mouths of History

Marcela Sulak

doi:10.47743/lincu-2020-2-0178

Their Labyrinth Mouths of History

Marcela Sulak

Department of English Literature and Linguistics

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Abstract

This paper outlines reading strategies to help map Hart Crane’s book-length poem, The Bridge, as a repository of American runes and writing. Contextualizing the poem in the philosophical, historical, and popular culture that influenced its creation, we can examine Hart Crane’s linguistic condensation, puns, and etymological play as techniques for balancing the clash between eternity and secular history upon which America was founded, rehearsed in The Bridge in the clash between secular a-temporality and the historical moment.

Original language	American English
Pages (from-to)	135-144
Number of pages	10
Journal	Linguaculture
Volume	11
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.47743/lincu-2020-2-0178
State	Published - 1 Dec 2020

Keywords

Hart Crane
The Bridge
American Poetry
Brooklyn Bridge
John Roebling
Josef Stella
Myth of America
Mikhail Bakhtin

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