The Supplement of Reading : Figures of Understanding in Romantic Theory and Practice.

Show other versions (4)

Tilottama Rajan illuminates a crisis of representation within romanticism, evident in the proliferation of stylistically and structurally unsettled literary texts that resist interpretation in terms of a unified meaning. The Supplement of Reading investigates the role of the reader both in romantic...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rajan, Tilottama
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018.
Subjects:
1700-1899
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Romanticism > Great Britain.
Reader-response criticism.
Littérature anglaise > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique > Théorie, etc.
Littérature anglaise > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique > Théorie, etc.
Romantisme > Grande-Bretagne.
Esthétique de la réception.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature > Theory, etc.
Reader-response criticism
Romanticism
Great Britain
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The Supplement of Reading; Contents; Acknowledgments; Frequently Cited Texts and Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I; 1. The Supplement of Reading; 2. The Hermeneutic Tradition from Schleiermacher to Kierkegaard; 3. Kierkegaard and Schleiermacher Revisited: The Revisionary Tradition in Romantic Hermeneutics; Part II; A. Reading, Culture, History; 4. The (Un)Persuaded Reader: Coleridge's Conversation with Hermeneutics; 5. The Eye/I of the Other: Self and Audience in Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads; 6. Wollstonecraft and Godwin: Reading the Secrets of the Political Novel.
  • B. Canon and Heresy: Blake's Intertextuality7. Untying Blake's Secular Scripture; 8. Early Texts: ""The Eye Altering Alters All; 9. (Infinite) Absolute Negativity: The Brief Epics; C. Deconstruction at the Scene of Its Reading; 10. ""World within World"": The Theoretical Voices of Shelley's Defence of Poetry; 11. Deconstruction or Reconstruction: Reading Shelley's Prometheus Unbound; 12. The Broken Mirror: The Identity of the Text in Shelley's Triumph of Life; Afterword; Index.

Similar Items