Sources, meaning, and influences of Coleridge's Kubla Khan : Xanadu re-routed : a study in the ways of romantic variety / Robert F. Fleissner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fleissner, Robert F.

Contributor:

Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

Series:

Studies in British literature ; v. 46.

Studies in British literature ; v. 46

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834. Kubla Khan.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834. Kubla Khan--Sources.

Opium abuse in literature.

Imagination in literature.

Dreams in literature.

Physical Description:

xx, 208 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, [2000]

Contents:

The Construct Itself xvii

"Kubla Khan: Or a vision in a dream. A fragment"

Part I An Annotated Xanadu 1

Ax Appendix: Echolalia of Lycidas in "Kubla Khan" 45

Part II "Kubla Khan" on Its Own Terms 47

A) The Matter of the Text: A Preliminary Review

Chapter 1 Is the "Daemon Lover" in "K.K." Not a Demon Rather than a Tutelary Agent? 53

Chapter 2 Did the Spelling X-a-n-a-d-u Originate with Xaindu, or rather with Xamdu?: "K.K." and Nominal Derivation 55

Chapter 3 The Mystical Meaning of the Pentad: A Gloss on "K.K." 57

B) Structure and Imagery

Chapter 4 From Tartary to Abyssinia in "K.K.": Geographical Chasm, or Explicable Shift? 63

Chapter 5 Examining Xanadu: "K.K." Reconstituted 69

Chapter 6 "K.K." and the Political Scene Reported 75

C) Influence on the Reverie-Poem

Chapter 7 A Xanaduvian Tempest 81

Chapter 8 Dome in Xanadu: Revisiting Shakespeare 89

Chapter 9 "K.K." and Tom Jones: An Uncommon Correlation 95

Part III Its Modern Pertinence 101

A) Influence on Others (Chronologically)

Chapter 10 Poe in Xanadu: On "Remasquing" the Red Death 107

Chapter 11 Tennyson's Hesperidean Xanadu: An Anagogic Pathway 111

Chapter 12 Passage[s] from "K.K." in Forster's A Passage to India 121

Chapter 13 The Pleasure-Dome Renovated: Xanaduvian Reverberations in Elizabeth Bowen's Own "Demon-Lover" 127

Chapter 14 Khan and Kane: Welles's Use of Coleridge 133

B) Drugs and Teaching

Chapter 15 Drugs, a Pressing Problem (with Side-Comments on Oz, Alice, and Xanadu) 139

Chapter 16 "Pot Luck": Drugs and Coleridgean Romanticism Rehashed 143

Chapter 17 "K.K." as a Teaching Device 149

Chapter 18 Recapturing the Dream Vision: A Summary 155

Some Key Contemporary Views 157

Main Appendix: Lightheartedness as Also Romantic

A) Sherlock Holmes in Xanadu (A Documented Pastiche) 171

B) An Armourial Bearing 179.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [181]-204) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0773477187

OCLC:

43985259