Keats and negative capability Li Ou.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ou, Li, author.

Series:

Continuum literary studies.

Continuum literary studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Keats, John, 1795-1821--Criticism and interpretation.

Keats, John.

English literature--History and criticism.

English literature.

Uncertainty in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (223 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London New York Continuum 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Negative capability", the term John Keats used only once in a letter to his brothers, is a well-known but surprisingly unexplored concept in literary criticism and aesthetics. This book is the first book-length study of this central concept in seventy years. As well as clarifying the meaning of the term and giving an anatomy of its key components, the book gives a full account of the history of this idea. It traces the narrative of how the phrase first became known and gradually gained currency, and explores its primary sources in earlier writers, principally Shakespeare and William Hazlitt, and its chief Modernist successors, W. B. Yeats and T. S. Eliot. Meanwhile, the term is also applied to Keats's own poetry, which manifests the evolution of the idea in Keats's poetic practice. Many of the comparative readings of the relevant texts, including King Lear, illuminate the interconnections between these major writers. The book is an original and significant piece of scholarship on this celebrated concept.

Contents:

Genealogy of negative capability

King Lear and negative capability

Negative capability and Keat's poetry

Modernist heritage of negative capability

The tradition of negative capability

Introduction: Anatomy of Negative Capability

1. Genealogy of Negative Capability

2. King Lear and Negative Capability

3. Negative Capability and Keats's Poetry

4. Modernist Heritage of Negative Capability

Conclusion: The Tradition of Negative Capability

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [196]-202) and index

ISBN:

9781441101037

1441101039

9781474211468

1474211461

9781282453036

1282453033

9781441170910

144117091X

OCLC:

593209858