Thinking through poetry : field reports on romantic lyric / Marjorie Levinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levinson, Marjorie, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry--History and criticism.

Poetry.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (343 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

'Thinking Through Poetry' is a work of and about literary criticism. It offers new readings of poems from the canon of British Romanticism and it narrates, enacts, and theorizes the arc of the scholarship on that field from the 1980s through the present.

Contents:

Introduction: crooked lines and moving targets

Part I. Theory: materialism against itself

The new historicism: back to the future

Romantic poetry: the state of the art

Pre- and post-dialectical materialism: modeling praxis without subjects and objects

A motion and a spirit: romancing Spinoza

What is new formalism?

Part II. Criticism: field theories of form

Of being numerous

Notes and queries on names and numbers

Parsing the frost: the growth of a poet's sentence in "Frost at midnight"

Still life without references: or, the plain sense of things

Conclusion: lyric - the idea of this invention.

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-253825-X

0-19-186484-6

0-19-253824-1