Shelley''s Broken World: Fractured Materiality and Intermitted Song: 2021
English
By (author): Bysshe Inigo Coffey
Shortlisted for the University English Book Prize 2022
Shelleys Broken World is a provocative and profound reassessment of Shelleys poetic art and thought. Bysshe Inigo Coffey returns to a peculiarity of Shelleys expressive repertoire first noticed by his Victorian readers and editors: his innovatory use of pauses, which registered as irregularities in ears untuned to his innovations. But his pauses are more than a quirk; various intermittences are at the centre of Shelleys artistry and his thought.
This book aims to transform the philosophical, scientific, and aesthetic contexts in which Shelley is positioned. It offers a ground-breaking analysis of his reading, and is the first study to refer to and include images of the unpublished Marlow List, a record of the books Shelley left behind him on his departure for Italy in 1818. Shelleys prosody grew to articulate his sense that actuality is experienced as ruptured and fractured with gaps and limit-points. He shows us the weakness of the actual. As we approach the bicentenary of the poets death, Shelleys Broken World provides an exciting new beginning for the study of a major Romantic poet, the history of materialism, and prosody. See more
Shelleys Broken World is a provocative and profound reassessment of Shelleys poetic art and thought. Bysshe Inigo Coffey returns to a peculiarity of Shelleys expressive repertoire first noticed by his Victorian readers and editors: his innovatory use of pauses, which registered as irregularities in ears untuned to his innovations. But his pauses are more than a quirk; various intermittences are at the centre of Shelleys artistry and his thought.
This book aims to transform the philosophical, scientific, and aesthetic contexts in which Shelley is positioned. It offers a ground-breaking analysis of his reading, and is the first study to refer to and include images of the unpublished Marlow List, a record of the books Shelley left behind him on his departure for Italy in 1818. Shelleys prosody grew to articulate his sense that actuality is experienced as ruptured and fractured with gaps and limit-points. He shows us the weakness of the actual. As we approach the bicentenary of the poets death, Shelleys Broken World provides an exciting new beginning for the study of a major Romantic poet, the history of materialism, and prosody. See more
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