Imageless Truths: Shelley's Poetic FictionsUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 1994 - 227 páginas 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. |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-3 de 38
... particular is celebrated precisely because of her unearthliness , even though it is a heaven on earth which the poem professedly yearns toward . The lights from her chariot that streak the sky “ are such as may not find / Comparison on ...
... particular triangle and not another , and you cannot avoid giving it sensible lines on a coloured area . We must then make use of propositions and of language in order to form general ideas . For no sooner does the imagination cease to ...
... particular riverbed or avenue carved out by the torrent in a particular direction " ( 75 ) . 27. I am thinking in particular of discussions by J. Hillis Miller and Paul de Man , who treat especially " The Triumph of Life " in terms of ...
Contenido
To Spread a Charm Around the Spot | 10 |
The Awful Shadow of Some Unseen Power | 39 |
The Language of the Dead | 71 |
Derechos de autor | |
Otras 5 secciones no mostradas
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
Referencias a este libro
Shelley Among Others: The Play of the Intertext and the Idea of Language Stuart Peterfreund Vista previa limitada - 2002 |
Poetics of Self and Form in Keats and Shelley: Nietzschean Subjectivity and ... Mark Sandy Sin vista previa disponible - 2005 |