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Fantasy, forgery, and the Byron legend /
Byron was -- to echo Wordsworth -- half-perceived and half-created. He would have affirmed Jean Baudrillard's observation that ""to seduce is to die to reality and reconstitute oneself as illusion."" But among the readers he seduced, in person and in poetry, were women posse...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington, Ky. :
University Press of Kentucky,
[1996]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Byron was -- to echo Wordsworth -- half-perceived and half-created. He would have affirmed Jean Baudrillard's observation that ""to seduce is to die to reality and reconstitute oneself as illusion."" But among the readers he seduced, in person and in poetry, were women possessed of vivid imaginations who collaborated with him in fashioning his legend. Accused of ""treating women harshly, "" Byron acknowledged: ""It may be so -- but I have been their martyr. My whole life has been sacrificed to them and by them."" Those whom he spell bound often returned the favor in their own writings tried to |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (210 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813158952 0813158958 |