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Modern Poetry and the Idea of Language Tunisian Literature Series and with his departure fromby Gerald L Bruns Publication Date: 04 27 2001 ISBN: 9781564782694 Gerald Bruns's ground breaking analysis compares two contrasting functions of language: the hermetic, where language is self contained and self referencing, and the Orphic, which originates from a belief in the mythical unity of word and being. Bruns lucidly depicts the distinctions and convergences between these two lines of thought by examining the works of Mallarme, Flaubert, Joyce,