Jerome Mcgann

Byron and the Poetics of Adversity (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

A landmark study that unearths Byron''s profound, enduring critique of the failures of language and the contradictions of his age.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009232920
• Artikelnr.: 70909483

Autorenporträt

Jerome McGann is Professor Emeritus in the Department of English at the University of Virginia. He is the editor of Byron's Complete Poetical Works (seven volumes, 1980-1993) and is one of the leading authorities on Romanticism and its aftermath. This book is a major addition to his influential argument for a 'Literature of Knowledge', which he first outlined in his 1989 Clark Lectures (Trinity College, Cambridge) and Carpenter Lectures (University of Chicago).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Don Juan and the English language
2. Byron Agonistes, 1809-1816
3. Manfred: one word for mercy
4. Byron and the 'Wrong Revolutionary Poetical System'
5. Byron, Blake, and the adversity of poetics
6. The stubborn foe: bad verse and the poetry of action.