The Design of Biographia Literaria

ISBN-13: 9781138669970 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 170 str.

Catherine M. Wallace;¬Abar;¬Abar

Opis

First published in 1983, this book examines a work whose intricacies have baffled and infuriated generations of readers and proposes a theory of Coleridge s writing habits that "explain(s) his explanation." The author painstakingly analyses the "Biographia s "organising structure distinguishing between the daring conception and often inept execution of Coleridge s idea of critical discourse. It is argued that Coleridge s autobiographical format present a richly metaphorical "self" whose literary life has led to the now-famous doctrine of secondary imagination. The author s command of Coleridge scholarship will shed new light on the "Biographia "for specialists and non-specialists alike."

Spis treści

Preface; Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; 1 The Chamois Hunter 2 Starting Points 3 The Associative Fancy 4 Imagination’s Synthesis of Being and Knowing 5 Imagination, Philosophic Consciousness and the ‘True and Original Realism’ 6 Poetry 7 Wordsworth and Poetic Diction 8 Wordsworth and the Imaginative Particular 9 Conclusion; Notes; Index

O autorze

Catherine Miles Wallace