Re-reading The excursion : narrative, response, and the Wordsworthian dramatic voice / Sally Bushell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bushell, Sally.

Series:

Nineteenth century (Aldershot, England)

The nineteenth century series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850. Excursion.

Wordsworth, William.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Physical Description:

272 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2002]

Contents:

1 The Poet's Voice 17

Disappointed Expectations 17

Ventriloquizing Through Another Man's Mouth: Coleridge 23

Impertinent Babbling: Hazlitt and Jeffrey 27

The Voice of Speaking Communication: Lamb 34

2 Dramatic Composition, Dramatic Definition 41

Defining the Dramatic Poem 42

Internalised Dramatic Conventions 46

Indirectness 56

In Which They Differ: Characterisation 59

In Which They Resemble Each Other: Textual Transposition 68

Dramatic Composition 74

3 A Performative Philosophy 85

Context or Content: i Ideology 85

Context or Content: ii Religion 94

Performative Structures: i Dialogue 102

Performative Structures: ii Walking and Talking 109

4 A Context for Response 117

The Historical Context: Reading Aloud 118

Contextualising Affective Response 126

The Poetic Context: i The Embedded Narrative 129

The Poetic Context: ii Retelling Margaret's Tale 131

5 Making the Reader Active 141

Doubling Response: Margaret and the Sentimental 143

Unsettling the Reader 149

The Twice-Told Tale 158

The Problem of the Poet 169

6 Different Ways of Seeing 181

Seen Through a Tender Haze: The Epitaph Form 181

We See, Then, As We Feel: Subjective Difference 191

Meeting at the Midway Point: Subjective Transcendence 203

7 Narrative Memory 211

The Minds of Men 212

Telling Tales in 'The Prelude' 217

Narrative Memory in 'The Excursion' 224

Narrative Memory and the Poetic Act 231

The Poet and his Community 240.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-267) and index.

ISBN:

0754605760

OCLC:

46792745