The poetics of disappointment : Wordsworth to Ashbery /
"The Poetics of Disappointment offers nothing less than a complete revision of our understanding of romantic poetry. By examining the lineage of Wordsworth, Shelley, Stevens, and Ashbery, Quinney challenges Harold Bloom's identification of major romantic poems as "crisis lyrics"...
| Основен автор: | Quinney, Laura. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Charlottesville :
University Press of Virginia,
1999.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=17061 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Poetics of disappointment. |
| Резюме: |
"The Poetics of Disappointment offers nothing less than a complete revision of our understanding of romantic poetry. By examining the lineage of Wordsworth, Shelley, Stevens, and Ashbery, Quinney challenges Harold Bloom's identification of major romantic poems as "crisis lyrics" and questions his idea that the disappointment these poets explore is compensated by their celebration of a heroic self. Rather, Quinney argues, the form of disappointment examined by the romantic poet often finds him bewildered and oppressed, in a state beyond the simple failure of literary ambition or romantic love." "Drawing on the psychological insights of Freud and Klein and on the philosophy of Kierkegaard, Quinney sees in her paradigm of disappointment a sophisticated representation of self that goes beyond mere pathos or melancholia. The history of romantic and postromantic poetry, she finds, is not a history of ambitious self-assertion but a collective testimony of chagrin over the broken promises of the self."--Jacket. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (xvii, 200 pages) : illustrations |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-195) and index. |
| ISBN: |
0585196540 9780585196541 |