Alexander Regier

Fracture and Fragmentation in British Romanticism

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explains why 'fracture' and 'fragmentation' are two crucial concepts in Romanticism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 424g
• ISBN-13: 9781107411777
• ISBN-10: 1107411777
• Artikelnr.: 37457984

Inhaltsangabe

Broken origins: an introduction
1. A brotherhood is broken: Babel and the fragmentation of language
2. Figuring it out: the origin of language and anthropomorphism
3. Forces trembling underneath: the Lisbon earthquake and the sublime
4. A blue chasm: Wordsworth's The Prelude and the figure of parenthesis
5. Letters from the grave: John Keats's fragmented corpus
6. The doubling force of citation: De Quincey's Wordsworthian archive
7. Philological fractures: Paul de Man's Romantic rhetoric.