Borders of a lip : Romanticism, language, history, politics / Jan Plug.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Plug, Jan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Romanticism--Europe.

Romanticism.

European literature--19th century--History and criticism.

European literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book recasts questions about the overlapping boundaries of language, history, and politics that have been at the center of critical and theoretical debates in the study of Romantic literature and thought. While poststructuralism and deconstruction have been accused of privileging language over history, the New Historicism and other historicist and cultural approaches to literature have attempted to restore history's place in the study of literature. Taking its title from a reading of the word Lippe in Kleist's Die Hermannsschlacht, Borders of a Lip is drawn to neither of these poles, but instead to their meeting place or coincidence: the site of a border, a political or national boundary, even the boundary that is the political, the lip that is also the place of language. Through readings of Kant, Wordsworth, Kleist, Mary Shelley, Yeats, and Lyotard, the book examines the convergence of language and history that takes place in their work. Instead of placing language and history in absolute opposition, making the border an unbreachable limit, the book explores how crossing these borders (re)defines the political.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

The Sign of History

“As if ” History—Kant, Then and Now

Naming History: Wordsworth

Bordering the Political

Legal Matter

Borders, Crossing

The Debts of History

Crossing Culture

A Specular Nation: Yeats’s Myth of the Irish

Threats, Responses: An Afterword

Notes

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780791485873

0791485870

9781423739296

1423739299

OCLC:

62757542