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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... already articulates a total critique of culture ; what seems to trigger a political response is already the product of an interpretive act . Far from being the historical truth concerning the war that England will wage against France ...
... already articulates a total critique of culture ; what seems to trigger a political response is already the product of an interpretive act . Far from being the historical truth concerning the war that England will wage against France ...
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... already pro- vides that critique in " The Thorn , ” begun shortly after he finished MS . B of The Ruined Cottage ( M. Reed 27-28 , 32 ; Averill Suffering 172 ) .27 To make sense of this critique , I will pretend for the moment that ...
... already pro- vides that critique in " The Thorn , ” begun shortly after he finished MS . B of The Ruined Cottage ( M. Reed 27-28 , 32 ; Averill Suffering 172 ) .27 To make sense of this critique , I will pretend for the moment that ...
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... already revising the text toward the 1805 version , " adding to these lines the words , and they troubled me . He comments , " In other words , the persona's ' troubling ' of nature's moon and stars — a representation of his ' own ...
... already revising the text toward the 1805 version , " adding to these lines the words , and they troubled me . He comments , " In other words , the persona's ' troubling ' of nature's moon and stars — a representation of his ' own ...
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Errancy in the Salisbury Plain Poems | 18 |
Notes | 237 |
Works Cited | 269 |
Urheberrecht | |
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