| Description |
x, 406 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Presentation and representation in the Renaissance lyric : the net of words and the escape of the gods / Murray Krieger -- Speculations : Macbeth and source / Jonathan Goldberg -- Trust and transgression : the discursive practices of Much Ado about Nothing / John Drakakis -- Donne's Praise of folly / Thomas Docherty -- Love and death in "To his coy mistress" / Catherine Belsey -- Towards the autonomous subject in poetry : Milton's "On his blindness" / Antony Easthope -- Pope among the formalists : textual politics and "The rape of the lock" / Christopher Norris -- Gray's "Elegy" : inscribing the twilight / Stephen Bygrave -- From topos to trope, from sensibility to romanticism : Collins's "Ode to fear" / Harold Bloom -- Sex and history in the Prelude (1805): Books IX to XIII / Gayatri C. Spivak -- Bounding lines : the Prelude and critical revision / Jonathan Arac -- Coleridge and the deluded reader : "The rime of the ancient mariner" / Frances Ferguson -- Evening star and evening land / Geoffrey Hartman -- "Ozone" an essay on Keats / Richard Rand -- Strategies of containment : Tennyson's In memoriam / Rob Johnson -- Topography and tropography in Thomas Hard's "In front of the landscape" / J. Hillis Miller -- Yeats in theory / Daniel O'Hara -- Spider and the weevil : self and writing in Eliot's early poetry / Maud Ellmann -- Frost's thanatography / Wallace Martin |
| Summary |
There has been a plethora of monographs and textbooks dealing with the many aspects of deconstruction and post-structuralist theory in recent years. What is needed now is a book which demonstrates in very concrete terms the possible application of post-structuralist theory to literary texts. This volume answers that need. A group of distinguished practitioners in the field have been invited to offer close readings of well-known poems from the established canon of English poetry. The texts chosen range from Renaissance sonneteers through Shakespeare, the Metaphysicals, the Augustan and Romantic periods, to Eliot and developments in the wake of modernism. An extensive reference and bibliographical section will provide useful points, of entry for those who wish to pursue critical issues which the book will inevitably raise. The book is unique in bringing together theory and practical application across such a range of texts from a single, canonical tradition |
| Analysis |
Poetry in English - Critical studies |
| Notes |
Poetry in English. - Critical studies (BNB/PRECIS) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies |
| Subject |
English poetry -- History and criticism.
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| Author |
Machin, Richard.
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Norris, Christopher, 1947-
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| LC no. |
86012962 |
| ISBN |
0521306051 |
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0521315832 (paperback) |
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