Romantic Shades and Shadows /
"Romantic Shades and Shadows is, at heart, a book about literary allusion. Each poem, book, or play that one encounters is imbued with verbal textures, turns of phrase, and ideas and things that summon the specter of older literary bodies. The poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge, for example, is...
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2018.
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Résumé: | "Romantic Shades and Shadows is, at heart, a book about literary allusion. Each poem, book, or play that one encounters is imbued with verbal textures, turns of phrase, and ideas and things that summon the specter of older literary bodies. The poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge, for example, is haunted by the writings of Shakespeare and Milton. In tracing ghostly patterns to find literary and contextual linkages, Susan J. Wolfson explores the shifting boundaries that separate one literary time period from another, and teaches her readers how best to conduct close readings of Romantic texts"-- |
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Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (272 pages). |
ISBN: | 9781421425559 |