Arbitrary Power : Romanticism, Language, Politics /

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This book explores previously unexamined links between the arbitrary as articulated in linguistic theories on the one hand, and in political discourse about power on the other. In particular, Willam Keach shows how Enlightenment conceptions of the arbitrary were contested and extended in British Rom...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Keach, William, 1942- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2004.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Romanticism.
Power (Social sciences) in literature.
Politics and literature.
English literature.
English language > Rhetoric.
English language > Political aspects.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > General.
Litterature anglaise > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Politique et litterature > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Anglais (Langue) > 19e siecle > Rhetorique.
Pouvoir (Sciences sociales) dans la litterature.
Romantisme > Grande-Bretagne.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Politics and literature > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
English language > Political aspects > Great Britain.
English language > 19th century > Rhetoric.
Romanticism > Great Britain.
Great Britain.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:This book explores previously unexamined links between the arbitrary as articulated in linguistic theories on the one hand, and in political discourse about power on the other. In particular, Willam Keach shows how Enlightenment conceptions of the arbitrary were contested and extended in British Romantic writing. In doing so, he offers a new paradigm for understanding the recurrent problem of verbal representation in Romantic writing and the disputes over stylistic performance during this period. With clarity and force, Keach reads these phenomena in relation to a rapidly shifting literary ma.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (208 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9781400873241

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