Wordsworthian Errancies: The Poetics of Cultural DismembermentJohns Hopkins University Press, 1994 - 287 Seiten According to David Collings, Wordsworth interpreted the outbreak of war between England and France in 1793 as a cataclysmic event, one whose utterly disfiguring effect he would trace in his work over the next decade. Expanding upon this extravagant interpretation of events, Collings argues, Wordsworth constructed a poetics of cultural dismemberment - a way for culture to imagine that it survives in the midst of its own destruction. In Wordsworthian Errancies, Collings challenges prevailing critical approaches to Romantic poetry by describing and critiquing this deconstructive account of culture in Wordsworth's poetry. Drawing ideas from deconstruction, psychoanalysis, Marxism, feminism, and queer theory, Collings's reading reveals a radically new Wordsworth, one who is far more concerned with various "queer" modes of sexuality than previously suspected. In a provocative reading of The Prelude, for example, Collings argues that Wordsworth associated his poetic power with homoerotic masochistic fantasies and with his involuntary delight in traumatic events. He also redefines the debate concerning the politics of Wordsworth's poetry: disputing recent critics who claim that Wordsworth retreated from history into a poetry of the self, Collings argues instead that the very notion of the solitary, autobiographical subject derived from Wordsworth's sense of cultural trauma. The suspect dimension of Wordsworth's poetry, Collings concludes, is not its retreat from history but rather its claim that history is disaster. |
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... September Massacres he asso- ciates with the Square of the Carousel , retreats to a high room in a nearby hotel , where he imagines that the violence has forever disturbed the world's sleep ( Prelude Book 10 ) .1 The rich interpretive ...
... September Massacres he asso- ciates with the Square of the Carousel , retreats to a high room in a nearby hotel , where he imagines that the violence has forever disturbed the world's sleep ( Prelude Book 10 ) .1 The rich interpretive ...
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... September Massacres into the orbit of Macbeth , capturing the rhetoric of accusation in the Louvet episode ( 10.83-103 ) , and descending into the violence of war and the Terror . By displaying the literary dimensions of revolutionary ...
... September Massacres into the orbit of Macbeth , capturing the rhetoric of accusation in the Louvet episode ( 10.83-103 ) , and descending into the violence of war and the Terror . By displaying the literary dimensions of revolutionary ...
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... September Massacres , to reestablish his innocence by blaming that violence upon the absolutely villainous Robespierre . Accord- ingly , this movement of the poem culminates instead in the extended sec- tion upon the news of ...
... September Massacres , to reestablish his innocence by blaming that violence upon the absolutely villainous Robespierre . Accord- ingly , this movement of the poem culminates instead in the extended sec- tion upon the news of ...
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Errancy in the Salisbury Plain Poems | 18 |
Notes | 237 |
Works Cited | 269 |
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