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On form : poetry, aestheticism, and the legacy of a word /

On Form assesses both the legacy of Victorian aestheticism and the nature of the literary. It tracks the development of the word 'form' since the Romantics and offers readings of, among others, Tennyson, Yeats, Stevens, and Plath. Original readings of poetry are combined with a powerful ar...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Leighton, Angela, 1954-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Form's Matter: A Retrospective; 2. Art for Art: On Pots, Crocks, Lyres, and Flutes; 3. Touching Forms: Tennyson and Aestheticism; 4. Aesthetic Conditions: Pater's Re-forming Style; 5. Seeing Nothing: Vernon Lee's Ghostly Aesthetics; 6. Just a Word: On Woolf; 7. Yeats's Feet; 8. Wallace Stevens' Eccentric Souvenirs; 9. W.S. Graham: In the Mind's Ear; 10. Forms of Elegy: Stevenson, Muldoon, Hill, Fisher; 11. Elegies of Form: Bishop, Plath, Stevenson; 12. Nothing, but: An Afterword; Bibliography; Index.