The secret of the black chrysanthemum : [the poetic cosmology of Charles Olson and his use of the writings of C.G. Jung]
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TextSeries: (The Clinamen studies)Barrytown, NY; New York, NY Station Hill Press (distrib. by Talman Co.) c1979, 1987Description: xxvii, 224p.; ill., ports.; appendices; bibliog. notes; bibliogContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 088268017X
- PS3529.L655 Z85 1987
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Jacket and series subtitle: The poetic cosmology of Charles Olson and his use of the writings of C.G. Jung.. First appeared in OLSON: the journal of the Charles Olson archives, No. 3, Spring 1975.
1 Olson's debt to Jung. Direct appropriations. Special vocabulary sources. 2 Projection. 3 The archetypes. The archetypes as a system of empirical categories. Archetype, instinct and image of man. The archetypes as psychic organs. The timelessness of the archetypes. 4 The libido. 5 The projection of archetypal force onto persons. Homo maximus. The types of maximus. 6 The projections of archetypal force onto language. Parataxis and puns. Syntax by apposition. 7 The projection of archetypal force onto place. 8 The self. Epilogue. Appendix 1 - Facsimile and transcription of Charles Olson's "The secret of the black chrysanthemum". Appendix 2 - A portfolio of photographs of Charles Olson - Charles Stein
'...explores Charles Olson's visionar7y peotics and the extensive use the poet made of the writings of Jung. Offering numerous detailed readings of poens from the Maximus series, Stein provides a useful and clearly written introduction to the major themes, cosmological speculations and poetic inventions of Olson's work....he interprets key Olsonian issues such as...how Olson revised Jung's concepts of the Archetypes to help order his own poetic matierial....'
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