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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... traveler wards off the possibility that the gaze will mutilate him , that the daylight will metamorphose into the violent blaze of sacrifice . The subject who is in danger of being the only opaque surface , the only disruptive element ...
... traveler wards off the possibility that the gaze will mutilate him , that the daylight will metamorphose into the violent blaze of sacrifice . The subject who is in danger of being the only opaque surface , the only disruptive element ...
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... traveler may simply be like the babe , recalling the pleasures of infantile repetition for adult purposes . Projecting the language of repetition onto nature in order to make it a source of pleasure , the traveler makes images into his ...
... traveler may simply be like the babe , recalling the pleasures of infantile repetition for adult purposes . Projecting the language of repetition onto nature in order to make it a source of pleasure , the traveler makes images into his ...
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... traveler / Robert falls far enough into the trance produced by his figurings , he will soon become the personification of his own figures , a ghostly wan- derer on wayward paths . But we need invent no such narrative ; the traveler is ...
... traveler / Robert falls far enough into the trance produced by his figurings , he will soon become the personification of his own figures , a ghostly wan- derer on wayward paths . But we need invent no such narrative ; the traveler is ...
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Errancy in the Salisbury Plain Poems | 18 |
Notes | 237 |
Works Cited | 269 |
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