The Meaning of Life in Romantic Poetry and Poetics

ISBN-13: 9780415956680 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 206 str.

Ross Wilson;Wilson Ross

Opis

In this study scholars investigate the meaning of 'life' in British Romantic poetry and poetics -- analyzing the work of Blake, Shelley, Byron, Wordsworth, and others -- to open up new terrain in Romantic poetry's relation to literary theory, the history of philosophy, ethics, and aesthetics.

Spis treści

Introduction Ross Wilson  Chapter 1: Blake’s Spiritual Body Simon Jarvis  Chapter 2: Gray, Wordsworth, and the Poetry of Ordinary Life Stefan H. Uhlig  Chapter 3: Wordsworth and the Life of a Subject Richard Eldridge  Chapter 4: The Romantic Life of the Self Paul Hamilton  Chapter 5: Fragments of an Interrupted Life: Keats, Blanchot, and the Gift of Death David Ferris  Chapter 6: Poetry as Reanimation in Shelley Ross Wilson  Chapter 7: The Profligate Catalogue: Don Juan, Don Giovanni, and the Reproduction of Life Corinna Russell  Chapter 8: Afternach: Life’s Posthumous Life in Later-Modernist American Poetry Robert Kaufman

O autorze

Ross Wilson is a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at the University of Cambridge. His works Subjective Universality in Kant’s Aesthetics (Lang) and Theodor Adorno (Routledge) appeared in 2007.