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. |
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... recall the above effusion ( " The wilderness has a mysteri- ous tongue ... " ) when he comes to write the final ... recalls us to the pre - sym- bolic aspects of the object itself by reminding us of the instability of sym- bolic ...
... recall that it is finally inaccessible to most of us , that at the end of the poem Laon , Cythna , and the child only gain entrance to it after they die , and that even then it is an arduous journey . The Preface again wavers uneasily ...
... recalls us to his presumed nature - worship , he is also reminding us that things are not always as simple as they ... recall the effects of a Great Dane when ren- dering the effects of the shape all light is a tremendous parody . The ...
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To Spread a Charm Around the Spot | 10 |
The Awful Shadow of Some Unseen Power | 39 |
The Language of the Dead | 71 |
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