Author: Shou-ren WangPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349203882
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
The Theatre of the Mind
Author: Shou-ren WangPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349203882
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
The Arnoldian
Author: The Mid-Victorian Literature and Loss of Faith
Author: Krishan Lal KallaPublisher: Mittal Publications
ISBN: 9788170991557
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
The Poet's Mind
Author: Gregory TatePublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191634328
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
The Poet's Mind is a major study of how Victorian poets thought and wrote about the human mind. It argues that Victorian poets, inheriting from their Romantic forerunners the belief that subjective thoughts and feelings were the most important materials for poetry, used their writing both to give expression to mental processes and to scrutinise and analyse those processes. In this volume Gregory Tate considers why and how psychological analysis became an increasingly important element of poetic theory and practice in the mid-nineteenth century, a time when the discipline of psychology was emerging alongside the growing recognition that the workings of the mind might be understood using the analytical methods of science. The writings of Victorian poets often show an awareness of this psychology, but, at the same time, the language and tone of their psychological verse, and especially their ambivalent use of terms such as 'brain', 'mind', and 'soul', voice an unresolved tension, felt throughout Victorian culture, between scientific theories of psychology and metaphysical or religious accounts of selfhood. The Poet's Mind considers the poetry of Browning, Tennyson, Arnold, Clough, and George Eliot, offering detailed readings of several major Victorian poems, and presenting new evidence of their authors' interest in contemporary psychological theory. Ranging across lyric verse, epic poetry, and the dramatic monologue, the book explores the ways in which poetry simultaneously drew on, resisted, and contributed to the spread of scientific theories of mind in Victorian Britain.
Victorian Poetry as Cultural Critique
Author: E. Warwick SlinnPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813921662
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The discussion of each poem attends to the complexity of the poem's utterance, its historical contexts, and its broader implications for cultural meaning.Victorian Literature and Culture Series
The Pall Mall Budget
Author: The poems and prose remains of Arthur Hugh Clough, with a selection from his letters, ed. by his wife
Author: Arthur Hugh CloughClough
Author: Arthur Hugh CloughPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315504677
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 477
Book Description
This volume represents a selection of some of the best poetry by Arthur Hugh Clough (1810-61). Detailed annotation provides the modern reader with the intellectual, cultural and historical information necessary for a full appreciation of the poet's work. The poems selected span Clough's entire career, with the main focus on his two most important poems, Amours de Voyage and Dipsychus and the Spirit. These poems are discussed at length in the critical introduction and are prefaced by substantial headnotes elucidating their historical background and literary antecedents. Providing a wealth of information about the poet and the context of his work, this volume represents a substantial contribution to the subject in its own right, as well as being essential reading for all students of nineteenth-century literature.
The Fortnightly Review
Author: Victorian Poets and the Changing Bible
Author: Charles LaPortePublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813931657
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Victorian Poets and the Changing Bible charts the impact of post-Enlightenment biblical criticism on English literary culture. The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw a widespread reevaluation of biblical inspiration, in which the Bible’s poetic nature came to be seen as an integral part of its religious significance. Understandably, then, many poets who followed this interpretative revolution—including Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning—came to reconceive their highest vocational ambitions: if the Bible is essentially poetry, then modern poetry might perform a cultural role akin to that of scripture. This context equally illuminates the aims and achievements of famous Victorian unbelievers such as Arthur Hugh Clough and George Eliot, who also responded enthusiastically to the poetic ideal of an inspired text. Building upon a recent and ongoing reevaluation of religion as a vital aspect of Victorian culture, Charles LaPorte shows the enduring relevance of religion in a period usually associated with its decline. In doing so, he helps to delineate the midcentury shape of a literary dynamic that is generally better understood in Romantic poetry of the earlier part of the century. The poets he examines all wrestled with modern findings about the Bible's fortuitous historical composition, yet they owed much of their extraordinary literary success to their ability to capitalize upon the progress of avant-garde biblical interpretation. This book's revisionary and provocative thesis speaks not only to the course of English poetics but also to the logic of nineteenth-century literary hierarchies and to the continuing evolution of religion in the modern era. Victorian Literature and Culture Series