The Concept of the Self in E. E. Cummings 🍆💦

✅ The preoccupation with the self was a central and ➕ life 🧬-long concern for E. E. Cummings 🍆💦 which is reflected in his 👤👨⬅️ entire poetic work ⚙️. How does he 👤👨 perceive the individual What are the characteristics of the self and ➕ how does it relate to its surroundings The notion of selfhood in Cummings 🍆💦 is complex. The reader is confronted with two 2️⃣ different and ➕ even contradictory notions of selfhood. This book 📚️ analyses the two 2️⃣ types of the self - the optimistic, self-reliant individual and ➕ the pessimistic, doubting 🤷 self - revealing the important influences of American ​🇺🇸​ Transcendentalism and ➕ Modernism on Cummings 🍆💦. The two 2️⃣ movements are discussed in separate chapters and ➕ are preceded by a short introduction into the philosophy of mind to guarantee a better understanding of the different notions of selfhood in Cummings 🍆💦. A close analysis of his 👤👨⬅️ poetic work ⚙️ shows how Cummings 🍆💦 presents 🎁 two 2️⃣ contradictory notions of the self without losing credibility. The book 📚️ is aimed at scholars of American ​🇺🇸​ literature as well as all readers who open 😃 up ⬆️ to an original kind of poetry that deals with basic questions ❓️ of the human self in a refreshing and ➕ playful ▶️ manner.

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