Author: Thomas De Quincey
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
The Suspiria is a collection of prose poems, or what De Quincey called “impassioned prose,” erratically written and published starting in 1854. Each Suspiria is a short essay written in reflection of the opium dreams De Quincey would experience over the course of his lifetime addiction, and they are considered by some critics to be some of the finest examples of prose poetry in all of English literature. De Quincey originally planned them as a sequel of sorts to his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, but the first set was published separately in Blackwood’s Magazine in the spring and summer of that 1854. De Quincey then published a revised version of those first Suspiria, along with several new ones, in his collected works. During his life he kept a master list of titles of the Suspiria he planned on writing, and completed several more before his death; those that survived time and fire were published posthumously in 1891.
Suspiria de Profundis
Author: Thomas De Quincey
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
The Suspiria is a collection of prose poems, or what De Quincey called “impassioned prose,” erratically written and published starting in 1854. Each Suspiria is a short essay written in reflection of the opium dreams De Quincey would experience over the course of his lifetime addiction, and they are considered by some critics to be some of the finest examples of prose poetry in all of English literature. De Quincey originally planned them as a sequel of sorts to his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, but the first set was published separately in Blackwood’s Magazine in the spring and summer of that 1854. De Quincey then published a revised version of those first Suspiria, along with several new ones, in his collected works. During his life he kept a master list of titles of the Suspiria he planned on writing, and completed several more before his death; those that survived time and fire were published posthumously in 1891.
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
The Suspiria is a collection of prose poems, or what De Quincey called “impassioned prose,” erratically written and published starting in 1854. Each Suspiria is a short essay written in reflection of the opium dreams De Quincey would experience over the course of his lifetime addiction, and they are considered by some critics to be some of the finest examples of prose poetry in all of English literature. De Quincey originally planned them as a sequel of sorts to his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, but the first set was published separately in Blackwood’s Magazine in the spring and summer of that 1854. De Quincey then published a revised version of those first Suspiria, along with several new ones, in his collected works. During his life he kept a master list of titles of the Suspiria he planned on writing, and completed several more before his death; those that survived time and fire were published posthumously in 1891.
Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow
Author: Thomas De Quincey
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781094835617
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Beginning with a discussion of Levana, the ancient Roman goddess of childbirth, De Quincey imagines three companions for her: Mater Lachrymarum, Our Lady of Tears; Mater Suspiriorum, Our Lady of Sighs; and Mater Tenebrarum, Our Lady of Darkness.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781094835617
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Beginning with a discussion of Levana, the ancient Roman goddess of childbirth, De Quincey imagines three companions for her: Mater Lachrymarum, Our Lady of Tears; Mater Suspiriorum, Our Lady of Sighs; and Mater Tenebrarum, Our Lady of Darkness.
Suspira de profundis
Author: Thomas De Quincey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Suspira de profundis, being a sequel to the Confessions of an English opium-eater, and other miscellaneous writings
Author: Thomas De Quincey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
“The” Works of Thomas De Quincey: Suspira de profundis. General index
Author: Thomas De Quincey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
The Works of Thomas De Quincey: Suspira de profundis, being a sequel to the Confessions of an English opium-eater, and other miscellaneous writings
Author: Thomas De Quincey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Author: Thomas de Quincey
Publisher: Gottfried & Fritz
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
A book about opium usage and the effects of addiction on the authors life.
Publisher: Gottfried & Fritz
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
A book about opium usage and the effects of addiction on the authors life.
Thomas de Quincey
Author: F. Burwick
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9781349416325
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
This book examines what De Quincey called 'psychological criticism', a mode of studying how 'literature of power' arouses ideas and images dormant in the subconscious. He explores this 'power' by means of an introspective analysis of the effects produced in his own mind by reading Shakespeare and Milton, Wordsworth and Coleridge. Discussion of De Quincey's critical and narrative prose includes his skilled rewriting of a German forgery of a Waverly novel, as well as such better known works as 'Suspiria de Profundis', Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts.' 'On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth', 'The English Mail-Coach,' and 'Wordsworth's Poetry.' New insight into each of these works is provided by drawing on a wealth of previously unpublished manuscripts.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9781349416325
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
This book examines what De Quincey called 'psychological criticism', a mode of studying how 'literature of power' arouses ideas and images dormant in the subconscious. He explores this 'power' by means of an introspective analysis of the effects produced in his own mind by reading Shakespeare and Milton, Wordsworth and Coleridge. Discussion of De Quincey's critical and narrative prose includes his skilled rewriting of a German forgery of a Waverly novel, as well as such better known works as 'Suspiria de Profundis', Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts.' 'On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth', 'The English Mail-Coach,' and 'Wordsworth's Poetry.' New insight into each of these works is provided by drawing on a wealth of previously unpublished manuscripts.
Suspiria
Author: Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 0993238483
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
Considers the complex ways that Sergio Argento weaves together light, sound, and cinema history to construct one of the most breathtaking horror movies of all time, a film as fascinating as it is ultimately unfathomable.
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 0993238483
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
Considers the complex ways that Sergio Argento weaves together light, sound, and cinema history to construct one of the most breathtaking horror movies of all time, a film as fascinating as it is ultimately unfathomable.
A Genealogy of the Modern Self
Author: Alina Clej
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804780765
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
As this book's title suggests, its main argument is that Thomas De Quincey's literary output, which is both a symptom and an effect of his addictions to opium and writing, plays an important and mostly unacknowledged role in the development of modern and modernist forms of subjectivity. At the same time, the book shows that intoxication, whether in the strict medical sense or in its less technical meaning ("strong excitement," "trance," "ecstasy"), is central to the ways in which modernity, and literary modernity in particular, functions and defines itself. In both its theoretical and practical implications, intoxication symbolizes and often comes to constitute the condition of the alienated artist in the age of the market. The book also offers new readings of the Confessions and some of De Quincey's posthumous writings, as well as an extended analysis of his relatively neglected diary. The discussion of De Quincey's work also elicits new insights into his relationship with William and Dorothy Wordsworth, as well as his imaginary investment in Coleridge.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804780765
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
As this book's title suggests, its main argument is that Thomas De Quincey's literary output, which is both a symptom and an effect of his addictions to opium and writing, plays an important and mostly unacknowledged role in the development of modern and modernist forms of subjectivity. At the same time, the book shows that intoxication, whether in the strict medical sense or in its less technical meaning ("strong excitement," "trance," "ecstasy"), is central to the ways in which modernity, and literary modernity in particular, functions and defines itself. In both its theoretical and practical implications, intoxication symbolizes and often comes to constitute the condition of the alienated artist in the age of the market. The book also offers new readings of the Confessions and some of De Quincey's posthumous writings, as well as an extended analysis of his relatively neglected diary. The discussion of De Quincey's work also elicits new insights into his relationship with William and Dorothy Wordsworth, as well as his imaginary investment in Coleridge.