The End Of The Mind: The Edge Of The Intelligible In Hardy, Stevens, Larking, Plath, And Gluck (literary Criticism And Cultural Theory)

LITERARY CRITICISM AND CULTURAL THEORY Edited by William E.Cain Wellesley College A ROUTLEDGE SERIES LITERARY CRITICISM AND CULTURAL THEORY WlLLlAM E.CAIN, General Editor THE OTHER EMPIRE British Romantic Writings about the Ottoman Empire Filiz Turhan THE “DANGEROUS” POTENTIAL OF READING Readers and the Negotiation of Power in Nineteenth-Century Narratives Ana-Isabel Aliaga-Buchenau INTIMATE AND AUTHENTIC ECONOMIES The American Self-Made Man from Douglass to Chaplin Thomas Nissley REVISED LIVES Walt Whitman and Nineteenth-Century Authorship William Pannapacker THE REAL NEGRO The Question of Authenticity in Twentieth-Century African American Literature Shelly Eversley LABOR PAINS Emerson, Hawthorne, and Alcott on Work and the Woman Question Carolyn R.Maibor NARRATWE IN THE PROFESSIONAL AGE Transatlantic Readings of Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Eliot, and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Jennifer Cognard-Black FICTIONAL FEMINISM How American Bestsellers Affect the Movement for Women’s Equality Kim Loudermilk THE COLONIZER ABROAD Island Representations in American Prose from Melville to London Christopher McBride THE METANARRATIVE OF SUSPICION IN LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY AMERICA Sandra Baringer PROTEST AND THE BODY IN MELVILLE, Dos PASSOS, AND HURSTON Tom McGlamery THE ARCHITECTURE OF ADDRESS The Monument and Public Speech in American Poetry Jake Adam York THE SLAVE IN THE SWAMP Disrupting the Plantation Narrative William Tynes Cowan READING THE TEXT THAT ISN’T THERE Paranoia in the Ninetenth-Century American Novel Mike Davis RACIAL BLASPHEMIES Religious Irreverence and Race in American Literature Michael L.Cobb ETHICAL DIVERSIONS The Post-Holocaust Narratives of Pynchon, Abish, DeLillo, and Spiegelman Katalin Orbán POSTMODERN COUNTERNARRATIVES Irony and Audience in the Novels of Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, Charles Johnson, and Tim O’Brien Christopher Donovan THE END OF THE MIND The Edge of the Intelligible in Hardy, Stevens, Larkin, Plath, and Glück DeSales Harrison THE END OF THE MIND The Edge of the Intelligible in Hardy, Stevens, Larkin, Plath, and Glück DeSales Harrison Routledge New York & London Published in 2005 by Routledge 270 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10016 http://www.routledge-ny.com/ Published in Great Britain by Routledge 2 Park Square Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN http://www.routledge.co.uk/ Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group. This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to http://www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk/.” Copyright © 2005 by Routledge All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system without permission in writing from the publisher. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Harrison, DeSales, 1968– The end of the mind: the edge of the intelligible in Hardy, Stevens, Larkin, Plath, and Glück/DeSales Harrison. p. cm.—(Literary criticism and cultural theory) Includes bibliographical referneces and index. ISBN: 0-415-97029-6 (alk. paper) 1. American poetry—20th century—History and criticism. 2. Subjectivity in leterature. 3. English poetry—20th cen