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Author : Nigel Leask
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0312020414
Author : Nigel Leask
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015013449239
Author : John Morrow,Jennifer Doudna
Publisher : Springer
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1990-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349207282
Author : Alan P. R. Gregory
Publisher : Mercer University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0865548013
Why should anyone bother with Coleridge either as a theologian or a political theorist? At first in desperation, but now quite deliberately, Alan Gregory convincingly suggests that one should bother because Coleridge mounted an imporant critique of reductionist explanations of human society and moral agency, and because Coleridge has much regarding that important enterprise to teach us still. While Gregory also offers a perceptive outline of early British conservatism, his main concern is with Coleridge's attack on reductionism, including his defense of the will against associationism, his criticisms of Enlightenment historiography, his discussions of the inadequacies of political economy, and the Trinitarian arguments against monism. There is, Gregory remarks, no grasping the range or inner dynamic of Coleridge's thought without appreciating his religious vision, his theology. Indeed, Coleridge himself affirmed that should we try to conceive a man without the ideas of God, eternity, freedom, will, absolute truth, of the good, the true, the beautiful, the infinite...the man will have vanished.
Author : J.R. de J. Jackson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317208891
First published in 1969, this book places Coleridge’s literary criticism against the background of his philosophical thinking, examining his theories about criticism and the nature of poetry. Particular attention is paid to the structure of Biographia Literaria, Coleridge’s distinction between Imagination and Fancy, his definitions of the poetic characters of Shakespeare and Wordsworth, his analysis of the mental state of audiences in theatres, and his interpretations of Paradise Lost, Hamlet and Aeschylus’ Prometheus. The emphasis throughout is on how Coleridge thought rather than what he thought and the process rather than the conclusions of his criticism.
Author : Kir Kuiken
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780823257690
Imagined Sovereignties argues that the Romantics reconceived not just the nature of aesthetic imagination but also the conditions in which a specific form of political sovereignty could be realized through it. Articulating the link between the poetic imagination and secularized sovereignty requires more than simply replacing God with the subjective imagination and thereby ratifying the bourgeois liberal subject. Through close readings of Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Shelley, the author elucidates how Romanticism’s reassertion of poetic power in place of the divine sovereign articulates an alternative understanding of secularization in forms of sovereignty that are no longer modeled on transcendence, divine or human. These readings ask us to reexamine not only the political significance of Romanticism but also its place within the development of modern politics. Certain aspects of Romanticism still provide an important resource for rethinking the limits of the political in our own time. This book will be a crucial source for those interested in the political legacy of Romanticism, as well as for anyone concerned with critical theoretical approaches to politics in the present.
Author : Kiran Toor
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443827638
This book is an attempt to assess the creative potential of alchemy as a master trope in Coleridge’s conception of authorship and imagination. It begins with a challenge to the idea that an autonomous author is at the centre of a literary work. This idea is crucial to the reception of literature and to the way in which concepts of “originality” and “authorship” are typically understood. Against this marking out of an author as a singular, autonomous, and uniquely privileged “self,” it is posited that, for Coleridge, authorship occurs in a transformative or alchemical interspace between the desire for self-expression and the necessarily other-determined nature of creativity. Offering an alternative trajectory for the author, Coleridge elaborates an imaginative strategy in which the dislocation of the self from itself is the truest path to self-expression, and the author must become other in order to become more fully himself. Demonstrating a unique link between plagiarism and creativity, this book suggests that alchemy, better than any other system, accounts for Coleridge’s propensity for plagiarism and for an aesthetic of artifice. In an attempt to trace Coleridge’s familiarity with Hermetic and alchemical discourses throughout his life, it has been necessary to review works as varied as those of Plato, Marsilio Ficino, Ralph Cudworth, Jacob Boehme, Herman Boerhaave, and F. W. J. Schelling. It is then suggested how Coleridge appropriates alchemical terminology to his own aesthetic and imaginative ends. Unable to resolve the desire for aesthetic autonomy with the impossibility of asserting the self in one’s own voice, Coleridge “plays” in the hermeneutic interspace between selfhood and otherness, creativity and counterfeit, authority and artifice in order to arrive at an entirely unique strategy of alchemical self-exposition. Arriving at authorial selfhood through the odyssey of alterity, Coleridge’s “play”giarisms, in this view, do not violate the principles of originality, but redefine them. The book ends with a consideration of the necessarily negotiated fiction of all acts of imagination and authorship.
Author : Stephen Bygrave
Publisher : Northcote House Pub Limited
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780746308295
A concise, accessible and innovative account of a major poet and thinker.
Author : John Barrell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 860 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : 0198112920
It is high treason in British law to imagine the king's death. But after the execution of Louis XVI in 1793, everyone in Britain must have found themselves imagining that the same fate might befall George III. How easy was it to distinguish between fantasising about the death of George and imagining it, in the legal sense of intending or designing? John Barrell examines this question in the context of the political trials of the mid-1790s and the controversies they generated. He shows how the law of treason was adapted in the years following Louis's death to punish what was acknowledged to be a "modern" form of treason unheard of when the law had been framed. The result, he argues, was the invention of a new and imaginary reading, a "figurative" treason, by which the question of who was imagining the king's death, the supposed traitors or those who charged them with treason, became inseparable.
Author : Stephen Tedeschi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108416092
This book re-orientates the relationship between urbanization and English Romantic poetry by focusing on urban aspects of Romantic poems.
Author : John J. Su
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139497541
Imagination and the Contemporary Novel examines the global preoccupation with the imagination among literary authors with ties to former colonies of the British Empire since the 1960s. John Su draws on a wide range of authors including Peter Ackroyd, Monica Ali, Julian Barnes, André Brink, J. M. Coetzee, John Fowles, Amitav Ghosh, Nadine Gordimer, Hanif Kureishi, Salman Rushdie and Zadie Smith. This study rehabilitates the category of imagination in order to understand a broad range of contemporary Anglophone literature. The responses of such literature to shifts in global capitalism have often been misunderstood by the dominant categories of literary studies, the postmodern and the postcolonial. As both an insightful critique into the themes that drive a range of today's best novelists and a bold restatement of what the imagination is and what it means for contemporary culture, this book breaks new ground in the study of twenty-first-century literature.
Author : Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Publisher : Springer
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1990-06-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349096671
This collection of Coleridge's political and social writings includes the second "Lay Sermon" of 1817 and "In the Constitution of Church and State", printed with only slight abridgements. It also has groups of briefer extracts tracing major steps in the development of Coleridge's mature thought.
Author : Jacob Lloyd
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031418778
This book considers Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s engagement with ‘Whig poetry’: a tradition of verse from the eighteenth century which celebrated the political and constitutional arrangements of Britain as guaranteeing liberty. It argues that, during the 1790s, Coleridge was able to articulate radical ideas under the cover of widely accepted principles through his references to this poetry. He positioned his poetry within a mainstream discourse, even as he favoured radical social change. Jacob Lloyd argues that the poets Mark Akenside, William Lisle Bowles, and William Cowper each provided Coleridge with a kind of Whig poetics to which he responded. When these references are understood, much of Coleridge’s work which seems purely personal or imaginative gains a political dimension. In addition, Lloyd reassess Coleridge’s relationship with Thomas Percy’s Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, to provide an original, political reading of ‘The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere’. This book revises our understanding of the political and poetic development of a major poet and, in doing so, provides a new model for the origins of British Romanticism more broadly
Author : James Vigus
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-02
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781351194419
"The ambivalent curiosity of the young poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) towards Plato - 'but I love Plato - his dear gorgeous nonsense!' - soon developed into a philosophical project, and the mature Coleridge proclaimed himself a reviver of Plato's unwritten or esoteric 'systems'. James Vigus's study traces Coleridge's discovery of a Plato marginalised in the universities, and examines his use of German sources on the 'divine philosopher', and his Platonic interpretation of Kant's epistemology. It compares Coleridge's figurations of poetic inspiration with models in the Platonic dialogues, and investigates whether Coleridge's esoteric 'system' of philosophy ultimately fulfilled the Republic's notorious banishment of poetry."
Author : D. Vallins
Publisher : Springer
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230288997
In addition to being the leading philosopher of English Romanticism and one of its greatest poets, Coleridge explores the dynamics of consciousness and mental functioning more extensively than any of his contemporaries. This book compares his psychological theories with his diverse exemplifications of Romanticism's self-reflexive quest for transcendence, showing how he continually highlights the circular and mutual influence of ideas and emotions underlying Romantic idealism and the cult of the sublime.