Author: William HazlittPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
The Spirit of the Age Or Contemporary Portraits
Author: William HazlittWordsworth in Context
Author: Pauline FletcherPublisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838752241
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
"Essays by several contributors represent a marriage between traditional textual scholarship and issues raised by contemporary theory and criticism. Jonathan Wordsworth discusses the making and remaking of The Prelude, along with other examples of the long poem in English; he emphasizes the shifting nature of both the text and the self and questions traditional assumptions about authorial intention and the possibility of producing authoritative texts. Pamela Woof brings an awareness of recent developments in feminist theory and gender studies to bear on her exploration of the role of Dorothy Wordsworth in the engendering of her brother's poetry, while Jared Curtis uses close textual analysis of a poem that was originally drafted by William, revised by Dorothy, and published by Coleridge, to raise issues of intertextuality and collective authorship." "Such accommodation between traditional scholarship and contemporary trends is by no means universal, and the present volume closes with Helen Vendler's fierce attack on the New Historicism, which she sees as hostile to the lyric impulse. Academic revolutions, as we know, can generate violent debate, but such debate should surely be welcomed as a guarantee of the continuing vitality of the discipline."--BOOK JACKET.
The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth
Author: Richard GravilPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191019658
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 978
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth deploys its forty-seven original essays to present a stimulating account of Wordsworth's life and achievement and to map new directions in criticism. In addition to twenty-two essays wholly on Wordsworth's poetry, other essays return to the poetry while exploring other dimensions of the life and work of the major Romantic poet. The result is a dialogic exploration of many major texts and problems in Wordsworth scholarship. This uniquely comprehensive handbook is structured so as to present, in turn, Wordsworth's life, career, and networks; aspects of the major lyrical and narrative poetry; components of 'The Recluse'; his poetical inheritance and his transformation of poetics; the variety of intellectual influences upon his work, from classical republican thought to modern science; his shaping of modern culture in such fields as gender, landscape, psychology, ethics, politics, religion, and ecology; and his 19th- and 20th-century reception-most importantly by poets, but also in modern criticism and scholarship.
William Wordsworth's Poetry
Author: Daniel RobinsonPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1441150609
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
Daniel Robinson provides a comprehensive guide to studying Wordsworth at undergraduate level.
The Translatability of Revolution
Author: Pu WangPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1684175917
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
"The first comprehensive study of the lifework of Guo Moruo (1892–1978) in English, this book explores the dynamics of translation, revolution, and historical imagination in twentieth-century Chinese culture. Guo was a romantic writer who eventually became Mao Zedong’s last poetic interlocutor; a Marxist historian who evolved into the inaugural president of China’s Academy of Sciences; and a leftist politician who devoted almost three decades to translating Goethe’s Faust. His career, embedded in China’s revolutionary century, has generated more controversy than admiration. Recent scholarship has scarcely treated his oeuvre as a whole, much less touched upon his role as a translator.Leaping between different genres of Guo’s works, and engaging many other writers’ texts, The Translatability of Revolution confronts two issues of revolutionary cultural politics: translation and historical interpretation. Part 1 focuses on the translingual making of China’s revolutionary culture, especially Guo’s translation of Faust as a “development of Zeitgeist.” Part 2 deals with Guo’s rewritings of antiquity in lyrical, dramatic, and historiographical-paleographical forms, including his vernacular translation of classical Chinese poetry. Interrogating the relationship between translation and historical imagination—within revolutionary cultural practice—this book finds a transcoding of different historical conjunctures into “now-time,” saturated with possibilities and tensions."
William Wordsworth and the Age of English Romanticism
Author: Jonathan WordsworthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
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The Encarta Book of Quotations
Author: Bill SwainsonPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312230005
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1360
Book Description
Here are 25,000 quotations drawn from the history, politics, literature, religions, science, and popular culture of the world--ranging from the earliest Chinese sages through Shakespeare to the present day.
Science and Eccentricity
Author: Victoria CarrollPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822981815
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
The concept of eccentricity was central to how people in the nineteenth century understood their world. This monograph is the first scholarly history of eccentricity. Carroll explores how discourses of eccentricity were established to make sense of individuals who did not seem to fit within an increasingly organized social and economic order. She focuses on the self-taught natural philosopher William Martin, the fossilist Thomas Hawkins and the taxidermist Charles Waterton.
Romantic Revolutions
Author: Kenneth R. JohnstonPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253331328
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Author: Alexander Ireland