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Author Stillinger, Jack

Title Reading The eve of St. Agnes : the multiples of complex literary transaction / Jack Stillinger
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 186 pages)
Contents ONE: Introduction: The Literary Transaction; TWO: The Starting Materials: Texts and Circumstances; THREE: The Multiple Readings; FOUR: Why There Are So Many Meanings (I): Complex Readership; FIVE: Why There Are So Many Meanings (II): Complex Authorship; SIX: Conclusion: Keats "among the English Poets"; Appendixes; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary Using the 180-year history of Keats'sEve of St. Agnes as a basis for theorizing about the reading process, Stillinger's book explores the nature and whereabouts of "meaning" in complex works. A proponent of authorial intent, Stillinger argues a theoretical compromise between author and reader, applying a theory of interpretive democracy that includes the endlessly multifarious reader's response as well as Keats's guessed-at intent. Stillinger also considers the process of constructing meaning, and posits an answer to why Keats's work is considered canonical, and why it is still being
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-177) and index
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Subject Keats, John, 1795-1821. Eve of St. Agnes.
SUBJECT Keats, John, 1795-1821. Eve of St. Agnes. gnd
Keats, John. Eve of St. Agnes. swd
Eve of St. Agnes (Keats, John) fast
Subject Literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
Authors and readers.
Canon (Literature)
POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Authors and readers
Canon (Literature)
Literature -- Theory, etc.
Interpretation
Methode
The eve of St. Agnes (Keats)
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780195351507
0195351509
9780199855209
019985520X
Other Titles Eve of St. Agnes