Shelleyan Eros : The Rhetoric of Romantic Love

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In this work William Ulmer boldly advances our understanding of Shelley's concept of love by exploring eros as a figure for the poet's political and artistic aspirations. Applying a combination of deconstructive, historicist, and psychoanalytic approaches to six major poems, Ulmer follows...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ulmer, William A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, > 1792-1822.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, > 1792-1822 > Criticism and interpretation.
Love poetry, English.
Love in literature.
POETRY > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Poetry.
Amour dans la litterature.
Love poetry, English > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:In this work William Ulmer boldly advances our understanding of Shelley's concept of love by exploring eros as a figure for the poet's political and artistic aspirations. Applying a combination of deconstructive, historicist, and psychoanalytic approaches to six major poems, Ulmer follows the logic of the writing's rhetoric of love by tracing links between such elements as imagination, eros, metaphor, allegory, mirroring, repetition, death, and narcissism. Ulmer takes the mutual desire of self and antitype as a paradigm for rhetorical and social relations throughout Shelley and, in a signif.
Item Description:Cover; Contents.
Physical Description:1 online resource (199 pages).
ISBN:9781400861385

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