Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Part I
  • The supplement of reading
  • The hermeneutic tradition from Schleiermacher to Kierkegaard
  • Kierkegaard and Schleiermacher revisited : the revisionary tradition in romantic hermeneutics
  • Part II
  • A. Reading, culture, history
  • The (un)persuaded reader : Coleridge's conversation with hermeneutics
  • The eye/I of the other : self and audience in Wordsworth's lyrical ballads
  • Wollstonecraft and Godwin : reading the secrets of the political novel
  • B. Canon and heresy : Blake's intertextuality
  • Untying Blake's secular scripture
  • Early texts : "the eye altering alters all"
  • (Infinite) absolute negativity : the brief epics
  • C. Deconstruction at the science of its reading
  • "World within world" : the theoretical voices of Shelley's defence of poetry
  • Deconstruction or reconstruction : reading Shelley's Prometheus unbound
  • The broken mirror : the identity of the text in Shelley's triumph of life
  • Afterword.