Shelley's Broken World
Fractured Materiality and Intermitted Song
Seiten
2023
Liverpool University Press (Verlag)
978-1-83764-430-8 (ISBN)
Liverpool University Press (Verlag)
978-1-83764-430-8 (ISBN)
Shortlisted for the University English Book Prize 2022
Shelley’s Broken World is a provocative and profound reassessment of Shelley’s poetic art and thought. Bysshe Inigo Coffey returns to a peculiarity of Shelley’s expressive repertoire first noticed by his Victorian readers and editors: his innovatory use of pauses, which registered as irregularities in ears untuned to his innovations. But his pauses are more than a quirk; various intermittences are at the centre of Shelley’s artistry and his thought.
This book aims to transform the philosophical, scientific, and aesthetic contexts in which Shelley is positioned. It offers a ground-breaking analysis of his reading, and is the first study to refer to and include images of the unpublished ‘Marlow List’, a record of the
books Shelley left behind him on his departure for Italy in 1818. Shelley’s prosody
grew to articulate his sense that actuality is experienced as ruptured and fractured with gaps and limit-points. He shows us the weakness of the actual. As we approach the bicentenary of the poet’s death, Shelley’s Broken World provides an exciting new beginning for the study of a major Romantic poet, the history of materialism, and prosody.
Shelley’s Broken World is a provocative and profound reassessment of Shelley’s poetic art and thought. Bysshe Inigo Coffey returns to a peculiarity of Shelley’s expressive repertoire first noticed by his Victorian readers and editors: his innovatory use of pauses, which registered as irregularities in ears untuned to his innovations. But his pauses are more than a quirk; various intermittences are at the centre of Shelley’s artistry and his thought.
This book aims to transform the philosophical, scientific, and aesthetic contexts in which Shelley is positioned. It offers a ground-breaking analysis of his reading, and is the first study to refer to and include images of the unpublished ‘Marlow List’, a record of the
books Shelley left behind him on his departure for Italy in 1818. Shelley’s prosody
grew to articulate his sense that actuality is experienced as ruptured and fractured with gaps and limit-points. He shows us the weakness of the actual. As we approach the bicentenary of the poet’s death, Shelley’s Broken World provides an exciting new beginning for the study of a major Romantic poet, the history of materialism, and prosody.
Bysshe Inigo Coffey is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow and Early Career Fellow at Balliol College, University of Oxford.
Introduction1. Matter in the Margins2. Dynamics and Statics3. Their Own Eternity4. Intermitted Song: Alastor5. Kant, Purity, and the Devil: Peter Bell the Third6. Weak Verse: EpipsychidionCoda. The Broken World
| Erscheinungsdatum | 05.09.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Liverpool English Texts and Studies ; 89 |
| Zusatzinfo | 12 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | Liverpool |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-83764-430-6 / 1837644306 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-83764-430-8 / 9781837644308 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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