Imageless Truths: Shelley's Poetic FictionsUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 1994 - 227 sider In Imageless Truths, Karen A. Weisman offers a new reading of Shelley's work in the context of the poet's changing constructions of poetic fictions. Shelley's understanding of language in general, and of the fictions and their rhetorical trope in particular, evolved throughout his career, and Weisman argues that it is in his self-consciousness over these transformations that we can find the primary motivating factor in the poet's philosophical and literary development. Weisman discerns in Shelley an ongoing quest for a mode of fiction-making that can accommodate both the poet's belief in a "metaphysical ultimate" and his anxiety over the implications of grounding poetic fictions too firmly in the details of everyday life. If Shelley's awareness of fictionality is a major element in the poetry, it is an awareness that comes with the troubled sense of the limits of fiction. Weisman contents that it is this persistent, double-edged anxiety that distinguishes Shelley from the other English Romantics. Her point is not intended to deny the validity or the continuing relevance of the deconstructionist perspective, nor the value of its various claims for Shelley; she is simply concerned that the instability of poetic fictions was eventually perceived as a "given" by Shelley, as the beginning premise which he acknowledged and then tried to move beyond. Imageless Truths will be of interest to students and scholars of English literature. |
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... mind ; Blest from his birth with all bland impulses , Which gently in his noble bosom wake All kindly passions and all pure desires . Him , still from hope to hope the bliss pursuing Which from the exhaustless lore of human weal Dawns ...
... mind , unable to find anything in the external , objec- tive world answerable to its longing for meaning , turns inward and feeds its desire with its own desire , that is , with an overflow of tropes of desire , conceived because the mind ...
... mind " is evocative of a river , and only because we have the title " Mont Blanc " are we able to guess that this is ... mind , form the poet's point of departure ; however , it quickly becomes obvious that the universe of things is a ...
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