Gerard Manley Hopkins and his poetics of fancy / by Kumiko Tanabe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tanabe, Kumiko, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian poetry, English--19th century--History and criticism.

Christian poetry, English.

Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 1844-1889--Criticism and interpretation.

Hopkins, Gerard Manley.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (242 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.

Summary:

This book explores the poetics of "fancy" in the works of Gerard Manley Hopkins, a term often paired with imagination in well-known Romantic poetics. It sheds new light on this concept, which is described positively in Hopkins's poetics and later becomes the essence of his idiosyncratic concept of "inscape", as shown here. Chapter One discusses the influence of Coleridge and Ruskin on Hopkins's poetics of fancy, Hopkins's experiments in the language of inspiration produced by fancy before his conversion to Catholicism, his idea of inscape as revealed by fancy, and the relation between his fanc

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Abbreviations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter One

1.1. Introduction

1.2. Coleridge's Definition of Fancy and Imagination

1.3. Ruskin's Definition of Fancy and Imagination

1.4. Hopkins's Introduction of Fancy into his Poetics

1.4.1. Hopkins's Definition of Fancy and Imaginationin 'Poetic Diction'

1.4.2. Fancy as 'Diatonic Beauty'

1.4.3. Hopkins's Quest for the Origin of Words as Christand Fancy

1.4.4. Toward 'the New Realism'

1.5. Conclusion

Chapter Two

2.1. Hopkins's Definition of 'the Language of Inspiration'and 'Parnassian'

2.2. Hopkins's Obsession with Beauty and Fancy

2.2.1. Introduction

2.2.2. Hopkins's Obsession with Beauty

2.2.3. 'The Flight of Fancy' as the Theme of the Parnassian School

2.2.4. 'The Flight of Fancy' in 'Il Mystico'

2.2.5. The Imagination of the Poet in 'A Vision of the Mermaids'

2.2.6. Hopkins's Departure from Wordsworth and Ke

2.3. The Power of Fancy in the Disguised Heroines of Shakespeare

2.3.1. Hopkins's Interest in Shakespeare's Fancy

2.3.2. The Merchant of Venice

2.3.3. As You Like It

2.3.4. Twelfth Night

2.3.5. Conclusion

2.4. Between Truth and Untruth

2.5. Hopkins's Experiments with 'The Language of Inspiration'Produced by Fancy

2.5.1. 'Floris in Italy'

2.5.2. 'The Beginning of the End'

Chapter Three

3.1. Introduction

3.2. Hopkins's Conversion to Catholicism and his Belief in the RealPresence in the Eucharist

3.3. Fancy in the Gothic Revival

3.3.1. Fancy in Gothic Architecture

3.3.2. Hopkins's Sympathy for 'Oddness' in the Fancyof William Butterfield

3.4. Hopkins's Fancy and Inscape

3.4.1. Fancy as Revealing Inscape in Nature

3.4.2. Fancy as Revealing Inscape in Gothic Architecture.

3.4.3. Fancy, Inscape and the 'Haecceitas' of Duns Scotus

3.4.4. Fancy, Inscape and 'the Affective Will'

3.4.5. Fancy, Inscape and Metalanguage

3.5. Fancy in the Baroque

3.6. 'Fancy, Come Faster'

3.7. Fancy in Hopkins's Sonnets Composed between 1877 and 1882

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 20, 2016).

ISBN:

1-4438-8242-9

OCLC:

921235435