Author: T. Milnes
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230281737
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The categories of authenticity and sincerity, treated sceptically since the early twentieth century, remain indispensable for the study of Romantic literature and culture. This book, focusing on authors including Wordsworth, Macpherson and Austen, highlights their complexities, showing how they can become meaningful to current critical debates.
Romanticism, Sincerity and Authenticity
Author: T. Milnes
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230281737
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The categories of authenticity and sincerity, treated sceptically since the early twentieth century, remain indispensable for the study of Romantic literature and culture. This book, focusing on authors including Wordsworth, Macpherson and Austen, highlights their complexities, showing how they can become meaningful to current critical debates.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230281737
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The categories of authenticity and sincerity, treated sceptically since the early twentieth century, remain indispensable for the study of Romantic literature and culture. This book, focusing on authors including Wordsworth, Macpherson and Austen, highlights their complexities, showing how they can become meaningful to current critical debates.
Wordsworth's Poetry of Repetition
Author: Sarah Houghton-Walker
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192697803
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Repetition has connotations of something boring, or unoriginal, or lacking in poetic skill, but repetition - in several different senses - dominates Wordsworth's poetry. This book explores those moments of repetition, placing them in the early nineteenth century context from which they emerged, and teasing out through extended close attention to the poetry itself the complexities of repetition and recapitulation. Drawing on extensive close readings of Wordsworth's poetry, the book asks what it means to repeat, and how saying things again, often in a way which recognises both sameness and difference at the same time, is fundamental to Wordsworth's attempt to write what he called 'sincere' verse. By analysing instances of repetition and the conjunctions which facilitate recapitulation within Wordsworth's writing, the book attempts to understand the context, in terms of ideas of repetition, from which Wordsworth's works emerge, and to consider repetition in a broad range of senses - from repeated words and sounds within particular poems, to ideas of translation, allusion, and echo. Houghton-Walker also argues the importance of the element of difference within even apparently 'pure' repetition. Such difference might be in perception, attitude, or understanding, but for Wordsworth, the subtle relationship between instances of what seems to be the same experience illuminates the potential for poetry to portray simultaneously the specific and the universal: to hold within its lines both immediate and general truths at the same time.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192697803
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Repetition has connotations of something boring, or unoriginal, or lacking in poetic skill, but repetition - in several different senses - dominates Wordsworth's poetry. This book explores those moments of repetition, placing them in the early nineteenth century context from which they emerged, and teasing out through extended close attention to the poetry itself the complexities of repetition and recapitulation. Drawing on extensive close readings of Wordsworth's poetry, the book asks what it means to repeat, and how saying things again, often in a way which recognises both sameness and difference at the same time, is fundamental to Wordsworth's attempt to write what he called 'sincere' verse. By analysing instances of repetition and the conjunctions which facilitate recapitulation within Wordsworth's writing, the book attempts to understand the context, in terms of ideas of repetition, from which Wordsworth's works emerge, and to consider repetition in a broad range of senses - from repeated words and sounds within particular poems, to ideas of translation, allusion, and echo. Houghton-Walker also argues the importance of the element of difference within even apparently 'pure' repetition. Such difference might be in perception, attitude, or understanding, but for Wordsworth, the subtle relationship between instances of what seems to be the same experience illuminates the potential for poetry to portray simultaneously the specific and the universal: to hold within its lines both immediate and general truths at the same time.
SINCERITY AND AUTHENTICITY
Author: Lionel TRILLING
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674044460
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
“Now and then,” writes Lionel Trilling, “it is possible to observe the moral life in process of revising itself.” In this new book he is concerned with such a mutation: the process by which the arduous enterprise of sincerity, of being true to one’s self, came to occupy a place of supreme importance in the moral life—and the further shift which finds that place now usurped by the darker and still more strenuous modern ideal of authenticity. Instances range over the whole of Western literature and thought, from Shakespeare to Hegel to Sartre, from Robespierre to R.D. Laing, suggesting the contradictions and ironies to which the ideals of sincerity and authenticity give rise, most especially in contemporary life. Lucid, and brilliantly framed, its view of cultural history will give Sincerity and Authenticity an important place among the works of this distinguished critic.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674044460
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
“Now and then,” writes Lionel Trilling, “it is possible to observe the moral life in process of revising itself.” In this new book he is concerned with such a mutation: the process by which the arduous enterprise of sincerity, of being true to one’s self, came to occupy a place of supreme importance in the moral life—and the further shift which finds that place now usurped by the darker and still more strenuous modern ideal of authenticity. Instances range over the whole of Western literature and thought, from Shakespeare to Hegel to Sartre, from Robespierre to R.D. Laing, suggesting the contradictions and ironies to which the ideals of sincerity and authenticity give rise, most especially in contemporary life. Lucid, and brilliantly framed, its view of cultural history will give Sincerity and Authenticity an important place among the works of this distinguished critic.
Romanticism
Author: Burwick
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118893093
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Compiles 70 of the key terms most frequently used or discussedby authors of the Romantic period – and most oftendeliberated by critics and literary historians of the era. Offers an indispensable resource for understanding the ideasand differing interpretations that shaped the Romantic period Includes keywords spanning Abolition and Allegory, throughMadness and Monsters, to Vision and Vampires Features in-depth descriptions of each entry’s directmeaning and connotations in relation to its usage and thought inliterary culture Provides deep insights into the political, social, and culturalclimate of one of the most expressive periods of Western literaryhistory Draws on the author’s extensive experience of teaching,lecturing, and writing on Romantic literature
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118893093
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Compiles 70 of the key terms most frequently used or discussedby authors of the Romantic period – and most oftendeliberated by critics and literary historians of the era. Offers an indispensable resource for understanding the ideasand differing interpretations that shaped the Romantic period Includes keywords spanning Abolition and Allegory, throughMadness and Monsters, to Vision and Vampires Features in-depth descriptions of each entry’s directmeaning and connotations in relation to its usage and thought inliterary culture Provides deep insights into the political, social, and culturalclimate of one of the most expressive periods of Western literaryhistory Draws on the author’s extensive experience of teaching,lecturing, and writing on Romantic literature
Romanticism and the Gold Standard
Author: A. Dick
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 113729292X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Through a close analysis of the pamphlets, reviews, lectures, journalism, editorials, poems, and novels surrounding the introduction of the gold standard in 1816, this book examines the significance of monetary policy and economic debate to the culture and literature of Britain during the age of Romanticism.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 113729292X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Through a close analysis of the pamphlets, reviews, lectures, journalism, editorials, poems, and novels surrounding the introduction of the gold standard in 1816, this book examines the significance of monetary policy and economic debate to the culture and literature of Britain during the age of Romanticism.
The Practices of the Self
Author: Charles E. Larmore
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226468879
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Charles Larmore develops a theory of the self that challenges the widespread view that the we always know our own thoughts.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226468879
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Charles Larmore develops a theory of the self that challenges the widespread view that the we always know our own thoughts.
Dissolution of Character in Late Romanticism, 1820 - 1839
Author: Jonas Cope
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474421318
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The Dissolution of Character in Late Romanticism studies texts written by contemporary poets, novelists, essayists, journalists, philosophers, phrenologists, sociologists, gossip-mongers and anonymous correspondents.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474421318
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The Dissolution of Character in Late Romanticism studies texts written by contemporary poets, novelists, essayists, journalists, philosophers, phrenologists, sociologists, gossip-mongers and anonymous correspondents.
Romantic Encounters
Author: Melissa Frazier
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804755177
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Romantic Encounters focuses on literary periodicals of the 1830s to describe the destabilization of readerly and writerly identities which occurs when Romantic irony meets an apparently rising literary marketplace.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804755177
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Romantic Encounters focuses on literary periodicals of the 1830s to describe the destabilization of readerly and writerly identities which occurs when Romantic irony meets an apparently rising literary marketplace.
Writing Romanticism
Author: J. Labbe
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230306144
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
What is 'Wordsworthian' Romanticism and how did it evolve? This book argues that only by reading Charlotte Smith's poetry in tandem with William Wordsworth's can this question be answered, demonstrating their mutual contribution to the creation of the 'Wordsworthian', through literary analysis and historical contextualizing of their writings.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230306144
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
What is 'Wordsworthian' Romanticism and how did it evolve? This book argues that only by reading Charlotte Smith's poetry in tandem with William Wordsworth's can this question be answered, demonstrating their mutual contribution to the creation of the 'Wordsworthian', through literary analysis and historical contextualizing of their writings.
Thomas Chatterton and Neglected Genius, 1760-1830
Author: Daniel Cook
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137332492
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Long before Wordsworth etherealized him as 'the marvellous Boy / The sleepless Soul that perished in its pride', Thomas Chatterton was touted as the 'second Shakespeare' by eighteenth-century Shakespeareans, ranked among the leading British poets by prominent literary critics, and likened to the fashionable modern prose stylists Macpherson, Sterne, and Smollett. His pseudo-medieval Rowley poems, in particular, engendered a renewed fascination with ancient English literature. With Chatterton as its case study, this book offers new insights into the formation and development of literary scholarship in the period, from the periodical press to the public lecture, from the review to the anthology, from textual to biographical criticism. Cook demonstrates that, while major scholars found Chatterton to be a pertinent subject for multiple literary debates in the eighteenth century, by the end of the Romantic period he had become, and still remains, an unsettling model of hubristic genius.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137332492
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Long before Wordsworth etherealized him as 'the marvellous Boy / The sleepless Soul that perished in its pride', Thomas Chatterton was touted as the 'second Shakespeare' by eighteenth-century Shakespeareans, ranked among the leading British poets by prominent literary critics, and likened to the fashionable modern prose stylists Macpherson, Sterne, and Smollett. His pseudo-medieval Rowley poems, in particular, engendered a renewed fascination with ancient English literature. With Chatterton as its case study, this book offers new insights into the formation and development of literary scholarship in the period, from the periodical press to the public lecture, from the review to the anthology, from textual to biographical criticism. Cook demonstrates that, while major scholars found Chatterton to be a pertinent subject for multiple literary debates in the eighteenth century, by the end of the Romantic period he had become, and still remains, an unsettling model of hubristic genius.