Wordsworth and the Figurings of the Real
Perhaps the most powerful feature of the Romantic imagination is its ability to dissolve existing form and order and create it anew. The Romantic investigation of the functions of the imagination also leads to important insights concerning its problems and dangers. Because it separates the person experiencing it from others around him, the imagination introduces ways of seeing which cannot be assumed to be simply communicable or easily shared, and which have as their objects different forms or 'things'. These forms, or figures, risk becoming for their originators both vehicles of power, in so far as they do convince others of their reality, a…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-349-05778-8
- EAN: 9781349057788
- Produktnummer: 33655129
- Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1982
- Seitenangabe: 183 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 20'511 KB
- Abbildungen: Bibliographie
Über den Autor
DAVID SIMPSON is Professor of English, University of California, Davis. He obtained his first degree at Magdalene College, Cambridge, and was awarded an MA at the University of Michigan before he took up the position of Lecturer in English and Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. He is author of Irony and Authority in Romantic Poetry.
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