Reading with John Clare : Biopoetics, Sovereignty, Romanticism /

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"Reading with John Clare argues that poetry and its repression lies at the heart of biopolitical thinking. By rereading the emergence of biopolitics and focusing on the exemplary case of John Clare, it renews our understanding of the relation between aesthetics and politics from romanticism to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Guyer, Sara Emilie
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Clare, John, > 1793-1864.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Poetry.
PHILOSOPHY > Political.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The Life of Reading
  • 1. The Viability of Poetry
  • 2. The Origins and Ends of Poetic Genius
  • 3. Can the Poet Speak?
  • 4. Inventions of Self-Identity
  • 5. The Poetics of Homelessness
  • Coda: The Reading of Life
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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