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Category : Future punishment
Languages : en
Pages : 334

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Author: David Collings
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487556063
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 157

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Certain moments in British Romantic poetry and art depict a state from which the attributes of existence – time and space, subject and object, language and visuality – have fallen away, leaving a domain prior to the world and to thought, the condition of mere existence. As Blank Splendour demonstrates, poems by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, and Clare as well as paintings by Turner evoke a condition that transpires in a time without time, a life without life. David Collings argues that these works invite us to move beyond the subtle remnants of ontology that linger in current versions of posthuman thought, such as affect theory and speculative realism, by opening up a domain of affect without affect, a world without objects. Anticipating the philosophers Emmanuel Levinas and Maurice Blanchot, these works bring into view the mode of a deconstruction that emerged before the linguistic turn, one that meditates on the blank condition underlying modernity. Ultimately, Blank Splendour reveals how these works speak to our own moment, when thought, forced to contemplate its own extinction, enters a new form of mere existence.

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Languages : en
Pages : 664

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Author: Anthony John Harding
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773564039
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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This movement radically revised the interpretation of the Bible as an "inspired" book and also helped to redefine the inspiration attributed to poets, since many poets of the period, including Coleridge himself, wished to emulate the prophetic voice of biblical tradition. Coleridge's mastery of this new study and his search for a new understanding of the Bible on which to ground his faith are the focus of this book. Beginning with an exposition of Coleridge's double role as theologian and poet, Anthony Harding analyses the development and transmission of Coleridge's views of inspiration - both biblical and poetic - and provides a history of his theological and poetic ideas in their second generation, in England especially in the work of F.D. Maurice and John Sterling, and in America in that of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Harding argues that Coleridge's emphasis on the human integrity of the scriptural authors provided his contemporaries with a poetics of inspiration that seemed likely to restore to literature a "biblical" sense of the divine as a presence in the world. Coleridge's treatment of biblical inspiration is thus an important contribution to Romantic poetics as well as to biblical scholarship. His concept of inspiration is also linked directly to his literary theory and thus to the current debate over the reader's relation to text and author.

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Languages : en
Pages : 704

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Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691098890
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1278

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Author: Johnson Grant
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Languages : en
Pages : 642

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Author: Johnson Grant
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Languages : en
Pages : 634

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Languages : en
Pages : 798

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Category : Liberalism (Religion)
Languages : en
Pages : 786

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