A Defence of Poetry
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Abjection
Aeschylus
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Alastor
Alex Comfort
Allegory
Antithesis
Apotheosis
Archetype
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Byronic hero
Castration anxiety
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Catharsis
Classicism
Conceit
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Criticism
Dante Alighieri
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Demogorgon
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Egocentrism
Epipsychidion
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Erudition
Existentialism
Family resemblance
Fatalism
Friedrich Nietzsche
Good and evil
Hayden White
Irony
Jacques Derrida
John Heath-Stubbs
La Vita Nuova
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Life imitating art
Lord Byron
Lyrical Ballads
M. H. Abrams
Mary Shelley
Metaphor
Metonymy
Moral blindness
Mutability (poem)
Narcissism
Natural Supernaturalism
Negative capability
Nihilism
Obscenity
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Pacifism
Parody
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Petrarch
Poetry
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Prometheus Unbound (Aeschylus)
Prometheus Unbound (Shelley)
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Psychomachia
Rainer Maria Rilke
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Romanticism
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Satanic School
Self-love
Sentimentality
Sexual Desire (book)
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Subconscious
Symbolic power
The Birthplace
The Erotic
The Revolt of Islam
The Triumph of Life
Thomas Love Peacock
Totem and Taboo
Tragedy
Product details
- ISBN 9780691630311
- Weight: 567g
- Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 19 Apr 2016
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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In this work William Ulmer boldly advances our understanding of Shelley's concept of love by exploring eros as a figure for the poet's political and artistic aspirations. Applying a combination of deconstructive, historicist, and psychoanalytic approaches to six major poems, Ulmer follows the logic of the writing's rhetoric of love by tracing links between such elements as imagination, eros, metaphor, allegory, mirroring, repetition, death, and narcissism. Ulmer takes the mutual desire of self and antitype as a paradigm for rhetorical and social relations throughout Shelley and, in a significant departure from critical consensus, argues that his poetics were predominantly idealist. Ulmer demonstrates how the idealism of Shelleyan eros centers on a symbiosis of contraries organized as a dialectical variation of metaphor. In so doing, he contends that this idealism is both a rhetorical construct and revolutionary agency, and traces the failure of Shelley's visionary humanism to the gradual emergence of contradictions latent in his idealism. What emerges are new readings of individual texts and a reconsideration of the poet's imaginative development. Originally published in 1990.
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