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The Supplement of Reading : Figures of Understanding in Romantic Theory and Practice / Tilottama Rajan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rajan, Tilottama, author.
- en Book Program, National Endowment for the Humanities Op, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--18th century--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
- English literature.
- English literature--19th century--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
- Reader-response criticism.
- Romanticism--Great Britain.
- Romanticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cornell University Press 2018
- Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Biography/History:
- Tilottama Rajan is Canada Research Chair and Distinguished University Professor at the University of Western Ontario. She is the author of Dark Interpreter: The Discourse of Romanticism (also published by Cornell University Press), Deconstruction and the Remainders of Phenomenology: Sartre, Derrida, Foucault, Baudrillard, and Romantic Narrative: Shelley, Hays, Godwin, Wollestonecraft.
- Summary:
- Tilottama Rajan illuminates a crisis of representation within romanticism, evident in the proliferation of stylistically and structurally unsettled literary texts that resist interpretation in terms of a unified meaning. The Supplement of Reading investigates the role of the reader both in romantic literary texts and in the hermeneutic theory that has responded to and generated such texts. Rajan considers how selected works by Coleridge, Wordsworth, Blake, Shelley, Godwin, and Wollstonecraft explore the problem of understanding in relation to interpretive difference, including the differences produced by gender, class, and history.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Frequently Cited Texts and Abbreviations
- Introduction
- PART I
- 1. The Supplement of Reading
- 2. The Hermeneutic Tradition from Schleiermacher to Kierkegaard
- 3. Kierkegaard and Schleiermacher Revisited: The Revisionary Tradition in Romantic Hermeneutics
- PART II
- A. Reading, Culture, History
- 4. The (Un)Persuaded Reader: Coleridge's Conversation with Hermeneutics
- 5. The Eye/I of the Other: Self and Audience in Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads
- 6. Wollstonecraft and Godwin: Reading the Secrets of the Political Novel
- B. Canon and Heresy: Blake's Intertextuality
- 7. Untying Blake's Secular Scripture
- 8. Early Texts: "The Eye Altering Alters All"
- 9. (Infinite) Absolute Negativity: The Brief Epics
- C. Deconstruction at the Scene of I ts Reading
- 10. "World within World": The Theoretical Voices of Shelley's Defence of Poetry
- 11. Deconstruction or Reconstruction: Reading Shelley's Prometheus Unbound
- 12. The Broken Mirror: The Identity of the Text in Shelley's Triumph of Life
- Afterword
- Index
- Notes:
- This eBook is made available Open Access. Unless otherwise specified in the content, the work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Sep 2018)
- ISBN:
- 9781501723148
- 1501723146
- OCLC:
- 1028952094
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