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Fracture and fragmentation in British romanticism /

"What associates fragmentation with Romanticism? In this book, Alexander Regier explains how fracture and fragmentation form a lens through which some central concerns of Romanticism can be analysed in a particularly effective way. These categories also supply a critical framework for a discuss...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Regier, Alexander, 1976-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Series:Cambridge studies in Romanticism.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A brotherhood is broken: Babel and the fragmentation of language
  • Figuring it out: the origin of language and anthropomorphism
  • Forces trembling underneath: the Lisbon earthquake and the sublime
  • A blue chasm: Wordsworth's The Prelude and the figure of parenthesis
  • Letters from the grave: John Keats's fragmented corpus
  • The doubling force of citation: De Quincey's Wordsworthian archive
  • Philological fractures: Paul de Man's Romantic rhetoric.