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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... darkness and light , vio- lence and the attempt to defend against violence , become indistinguish- able . As Mileur argues , “ just as ... hyperbolic depths are perspectivally indistinguishable from hyperbolic heights , so are ...
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... darkness , solitude , and blank desertion , they are akin to the dead who rise in another deserted waste to another solitary traveler on the stroke of darkness , figures who also threaten to assault the unwary male who , compelled by ...
... darkness , solitude , and blank desertion , they are akin to the dead who rise in another deserted waste to another solitary traveler on the stroke of darkness , figures who also threaten to assault the unwary male who , compelled by ...
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... darkness against his will , now he pretends that he intentionally called forth that darkness . As in the Imagination passage of Book 6 , he recognizes the hy- perbolic , alienated force that compelled him forward into darkness as him ...
... darkness against his will , now he pretends that he intentionally called forth that darkness . As in the Imagination passage of Book 6 , he recognizes the hy- perbolic , alienated force that compelled him forward into darkness as him ...
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Errancy in the Salisbury Plain Poems | 18 |
Notes | 237 |
Works Cited | 269 |
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