The Supplement of Reading : : Figures of Understanding in Romantic Theory and Practice /

The Supplement of Reading : : Figures of Understanding in Romantic Theory and Practice / / Tilottama Rajan.

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Tilottama Rajan illuminates a crisis of representation within romanticism, evident in the proliferation of stylistically and structurally unsettled literary texts that resist interpretation in terms of a unified meaning. The Supplement of Reading investigates the role of the reader both in romantic...

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Rajan, Tilottama,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press,, [2018]
©1990
Year of Publication:2018
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource
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Table of Contents:
  • Front matter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Frequently Cited Texts and Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • PART I
  • 1. The Supplement of Reading
  • 2. The Hermeneutic Tradition from Schleiermacher to Kierkegaard
  • 3. Kierkegaard and Schleiermacher Revisited: The Revisionary Tradition in Romantic Hermeneutics
  • PART II
  • A. Reading, Culture, History
  • 4. The (Un)Persuaded Reader: Coleridge's Conversation with Hermeneutics
  • 5. The Eye/I of the Other: Self and Audience in Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads
  • 6. Wollstonecraft and Godwin: Reading the Secrets of the Political Novel
  • B. Canon and Heresy: Blake's Intertextuality
  • 7. Untying Blake's Secular Scripture
  • 8. Early Texts: "The Eye Altering Alters All"
  • 9. (Infinite) Absolute Negativity: The Brief Epics
  • C. Deconstruction at the Scene of I ts Reading
  • 10. "World within World": The Theoretical Voices of Shelley's Defence of Poetry
  • 11. Deconstruction or Reconstruction: Reading Shelley's Prometheus Unbound
  • 12. The Broken Mirror: The Identity of the Text in Shelley's Triumph of Life
  • Afterword
  • Index

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