Screen LibraryShelleyan eros : the rhetoric of romantic love /
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...
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| Publisher Address: | Princeton, N.J. : |
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[1990] ©1990 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| 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.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (199 pages) : illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9781400861385 |
| Index Number: | PR5442 |
| CLC: | I561.072 |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- EDITIONS AND ABBREVIATIONS -- Chapter 1. SHELLEY'S POETICS OF LOVE -- Chapter 2. THE VANISHED BODY -- Chapter 3. EROS AND REVOLUTION -- Chapter 4. THE UNBINDING OF METAPHOR -- Chapter 5. THE POLITICS OF RECEPTION -- Chapter 6. ITALIAN PLATONICS -- Chapter 7. SHELLEY'S DEATH MASQUE -- INDEX. |