Power and Self-Consciousness in the Poetry of Shelley
Author : Andrew J Welburn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 31,93 MB
Release : 1986-07-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1349182788
Author : Andrew J Welburn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 31,93 MB
Release : 1986-07-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1349182788
Author : Mark Sandy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 46,50 MB
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1351910663
Beginning with a reassessment of contemporary romantic studies, this book provides a modern critical comparison of Keats and Shelley. The study offers detailed close readings of a variety of literary genres (including the romance, lyric, elegy and literary fragment) adopted by Keats and Shelley to explore their poetic treatment of self and form. The poetic careers of Keats and Shelley embrace a tragic affirmation of those darker elements latent in the earlier writings to meditate on their own posthumous reception and reputation. Fresh readings of Keats and Shelley show how they conceive of the self as fictional and anticipate Nietzsche's modern theories of subjectivity. Nietzsche's conception of the subject as a site of conflicting fictions usefully measures this emergent sense of poetic self and form in Keats and Shelley. This Nietzschean perspective enriches our appreciation of the considerable artistic achievement of these two significant second-generation romantic poets.
Author : Karen A. Weisman
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 20,22 MB
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1512808857
In Imageless Truths, Karen A. Weisman offers a new reading of Shelley's work in the context of the poet's changing constructions of poetic fictions. Shelley's understanding of language in general, and of the fictions and their rhetorical trope in particular, evolved throughout his career, and Weisman argues that it is in his self-consciousness over these transformations that we can find the primary motivating factor in the poet's philosophical and literary development. Weisman discerns in Shelley an ongoing quest for a mode of fiction-making that can accommodate both the poet's belief in a "metaphysical ultimate" and his anxiety over the implications of grounding poetic fictions too firmly in the details of everyday life. If Shelley's awareness of fictionality is a major element in the poetry, it is an awareness that comes with the troubled sense of the limits of fiction. Weisman contents that it is this persistent, double-edged anxiety that distinguishes Shelley from the other English Romantics. Her point is not intended to deny the validity or the continuing relevance of the deconstructionist perspective, nor the value of its various claims for Shelley; she is simply concerned that the instability of poetic fictions was eventually perceived as a "given" by Shelley, as the beginning premise which he acknowledged and then tried to move beyond. Imageless Truths will be of interest to students and scholars of English literature.
Author : Jerrold E. Hogle
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 38,69 MB
Release : 1989-01-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 019536371X
In this set of thorough and revisionary readings of Percy Bysshe Shelley's best-known writings in verse and prose, Hogle argues that the logic and style in all these works are governed by a movement in every thought, memory, image, or word-pattern whereby each is seen and sees itself in terms of a radically different form. For any specified entity or figure to be known for "what it is," it must be reconfigured by and in terms of another one at another level (which must then be dislocated itself). In so delineating Shelley's "process," Hogle reveals the revisionary procedure in the poet's various texts and demonstrates the powerful effects of "radical transference" in Shelley's visions of human possibility.
Author : Andrew Lacey
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 37,74 MB
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ISBN : 3031495403
Author : Clark T Clark
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 14,9 MB
Release : 2019-06-01
Category : POETRY
ISBN : 1474465765
Even in his own day, Shelley's value as a poet and a thinker was hotly debated. This book argues that Shelley was both ahead of and in tune with his time and ours. Featuring close readings of the key texts, the book includes a reassessment of a previously undervalued work. Contributions from leading academics such as Marilyn Butler, Stuart Curran and Donald Reiman, mix with new ideas from up and coming scholars to expand our knowledge and understanding of this problematic poet.
Author : David Duff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 16,80 MB
Release : 1994-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521450188
Relates the revival of literary romance to the French Revolution's imaginative impact on English Romanticism.
Author : Percy Bysshe Shelley
Publisher : MacMillan Publishing Company
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 12,39 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Author : Fiona L. Price
Publisher : Lewiston, N.Y. : E. Mellen Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 31,63 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
This collection of essays by researchers on both sides of the Atlantic is centered on a single theme capable of two main interpretations. First, it is concerned with the role of silence, the sublime and the transcendental. Secondly, it investigates silence as exclusion, suppression and censorship. Offering fresh readings of a wide variety of literary works, from Shelley to Eliza Fenwick.
Author : Roland A Duerksen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 49,21 MB
Release : 1988-11-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1349196312