Tennyson's rapture : transformation in the Victorian dramatic monologue /
Cornelia Pearsall.
Bok Engelsk 2008 Cornelia D. J. Pearsall,· Electronic books.
| Utgitt | New York ; Oxford : : Oxford University Press, , 2008.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (viii, 397 p. ) : ill.
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| Opplysninger | INTRODUCTION: RAPT ORATION; PART ONE: THE PERFORMANCE OF THE DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE; The Poetics and Politics of the Dramatic Monologue; Poetics: Persuasive Similitude; Politics: Whig Poetics; Victorian Rapture; Victorian End Times; The Rapture of St. Simeon Stylites; Simeon's Afterlife: The Message of the Butterfly; PART TWO: UNREAL CITY: VICTORIANS IN TROY; The Knowledge of Troy; Feeding the Heart: Educating Tennyson; Locating Victorian Troy; The Knowledge of Ulysses; The Character of the Homeric Statesman; "Ulysses" and the Rapture of Troy; PART THREE: THE COMPOSITION OF THE SONG-BUILT CITY; Tithonus and the Uses of Masculine Beauty; Trojan Aesthetics; The Rapture of Tithonus; Tithonus, Tiresias and Song-built Civics; Tithonus and Trojan Aristocracy; The Rapture of Tiresias; CONCLUSION: TENNYSON'S APOTHEOSIS; NOTES; INDEX. - Exploring Tennyson's representation of rapture as a radical mechanism of transformation & as a figure for critical processes in his own poetics, this volume offers a new approach to reading Victorian dramatic monologues.. - Electronic reproduction.
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| ISBN | 9780195150544
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