| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 229 pages) |
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Travelling on Shaky Ground: Childe Harold I and II and the Beginning of Byronic Knowing -- Worse than Faithless: Plenitude and the Loss of Knowledge in The Giaour -- Talking Turkey: Unmasking Knowledge in the Last of the Eastern Tales -- Knowing on Demand: Constructing Knowledge-Claims in Manfreds Mental Theatre -- A lively readers fancy does the rest: Don Juan and the Certainty of Doubt |
| Summary |
Taking a fresh approach to Byron, this book argues that he should be understood as a poet whose major works develop a carefully reasoned philosophy of knowledge. Situating him with reference to the thought of the period, it argues for Byron as an active thinker, whose final philosophical stance - reader-centred scepticism - has wide-ranging practical implications.€ The book examines Childe Harold I, II and III, The Giarou, Lara, Manfred and Don Juan, considering each as a step in Byron's evolving philosophy. Showing how Byron draws upon the ideas and works of John Locke, David Hume, and George Berkeley, as well as Scottish Enlightenment philosophers such as William Drummond and Thomas Reid, The Development of Byron's Philosophy of Knowledge frames a Byron who is influenced by the intellectual advances of his period but who moves beyond them, a thinker in his own right |
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"Taking a fresh approach to Byron, this book argues that he should be understood as a poet whose major works develop a carefully reasoned philosophy. Situating him with reference to the thought of the period, it argues for Byron as an active thinker, whose final philosophical stance - reader-centred scepticism - has extensive practical implications"--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 -- Philosophy
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| SUBJECT |
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 fast |
| Subject |
Knowledge, Theory of, in literature.
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Literary studies: poetry & poets.
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Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge.
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Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900.
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POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Literature.
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Knowledge, Theory of, in literature
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Philosophy
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Literary studies: poetry & poets -- Ireland -- 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899.
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Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge -- Ireland -- 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899.
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Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 -- Ireland -- 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899.
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Literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780230290563 |
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0230290566 |
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1282997696 |
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9781282997691 |
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9786612997693 |
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6612997699 |
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