Shelleyan Eros: The Rhetoric of Romantic Love
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
In this work William Ulmer boldly advances our understanding of Shelley's concept of love by exploring eros as a figure for the poet's political and artistic aspirations. Applying a combination of deconstructive, historicist, and psychoanalytic approaches to six major poems, Ulmer follows the logic of the writing's rhetoric of love by tracing links between such elements as imagination, eros, metaphor, allegory, mirroring, repetition, death, and narcissism. Ulmer takes the mutual desire of self and antitype as a paradigm for rhetorical and social relations throughout Shelley and, in a significant departure from critical consensus, argues that his poetics were predominantly idealist.
Ulmer demonstrates how the idealism of Shelleyan eros centers on a symbiosis of contraries organized as a dialectical variation of metaphor. In so doing, he contends that this idealism is both a rhetorical construct and revolutionary agency, and traces the failure of Shelley's visionary humanism to the gradual emergence of contradictions latent in his idealism. What emerges are new readings of individual texts and a reconsideration of the poet's imaginative development.
Originally published in 1990.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Related to Shelleyan Eros
Titles in the series (6)
Engineers of Happy Land: Technology and Nationalism in a Colony Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Regulating the Social: The Welfare State and Local Politics in Imperial Germany Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSocial Bodies: Science, Reproduction, and Italian Modernity Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Gibeon, Where the Sun Stood Still: The Discovery of the Biblical City Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Colonialism and Revolution in the Middle East: Social and Cultural Origins of Egypt's Urabi Movement Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related ebooks
Subjecting Verses: Latin Love Elegy and the Emergence of the Real Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEchoes of Desire: English Petrarchism and Its Counterdiscourses Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRepresentation and Its Discontents: The Critical Legacy of German Romanticism Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLiterature, Life, and Modernity Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMusic, Madness, and the Unworking of Language Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Supplement of Reading: Figures of Understanding in Romantic Theory and Practice Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Rest Is Silence: Death as Annihilation in the English Renaissance Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Gaiety of Language: An Essay on the Radical Poetics of W. B. Yeats and Wallace Stevens Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Literary Transcendentalism: Style and Vision in the American Renaissance Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Pastoral Forms and Attitudes Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAllegory: The Theory of a Symbolic Mode Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Religious Sonnets of Dylan Thomas: A Study in Imagery and Meaning Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLove and Depth in the American Novel: From Stowe to James Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsArthurian Triptych: Mythic Materials in Charles Williams, C. S. Lewis, and T. S. Eliot Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Lost Second Book of Aristotle's Poetics Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsParting Words: Victorian Poetry and Public Address Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsShakespeare and the Grammar of Forgiveness Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Chaucer and the Poets: An Essay on Troilus and Criseyde Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Wounded Animal: J. M. Coetzee and the Difficulty of Reality in Literature and Philosophy Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Sentimental Memorials: Women and the Novel in Literary History Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Marginalization of Poetry: Language Writing and Literary History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Renaissance psychologies: Spenser and Shakespeare Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsProse Immortality, 1711-1819 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRitual Irony: Poetry and Sacrifice in Euripides Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRobert Lowell's Language of the Self Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Tangled Chain: The Structure of Disorder in the Anatomy of Melancholy Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAir's Appearance: Literary Atmosphere in British Fiction, 1660-1794 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsContemporary Literature and the End of the Novel: Creature, Affect, Form Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tolstoy or Dostoevsky: An Essay in the Old Criticism Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Humoring the Body: Emotions and the Shakespearean Stage Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Poetry For You
Dante's Divine Comedy: Inferno Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Canterbury Tales Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Odyssey: (The Stephen Mitchell Translation) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Prophet Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Twenty love poems and a song of despair Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Iliad of Homer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tao Te Ching: A New English Version Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Odyssey Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Iliad: The Fitzgerald Translation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Inward Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is enuf Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dante's Inferno: The Divine Comedy, Book One Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bedtime Stories for Grown-ups Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Way Forward Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Beowulf Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Weary Blues Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Love Her Wild: Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Selected Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Leaves of Grass: 1855 Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5You Better Be Lightning Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Odyssey Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGilgamesh: A New English Version Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Edgar Allan Poe: The Complete Collection Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Dream Work Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Letters to a Young Poet (Rediscovered Books): With linked Table of Contents Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Complete Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Complete Poems of John Keats (with an Introduction by Robert Bridges) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beyond Thoughts: An Exploration Of Who We Are Beyond Our Minds Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Reviews for Shelleyan Eros
0 ratings0 reviews