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Byron and the Forms of Thought / Anthony Howe.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Howe, Anthony, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature--History and criticism.
- Literature.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (205 pages)
- Other Title:
- Knowledge Unlatched.
- Place of Publication:
- Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2013.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Byron and the Forms of Thought is a major new study of Byron as a poet and thinker. While informed by recent work on Byron's philosophical contexts, the book questions attempts to describe Byron as a philosopher of a particular kind. It approaches Byron, rather, as a writer fascinated by the different ways of thinking philosophy and poetry are taken to represent. After an Introduction that explores Byron's reception as a thinker, the book moves to a new reading of Byron's scepticism, arguing for a close proximity, in Byron's thought, between epistemology and poetics. This is explored through readings of Byron's efforts both as a philosophical poet and writer of critical prose. The conclusions reached form the basis of an extended reading of Don Juan as a critical narrative that investigates connections between visionary and political consciousness. What emerges is a deeply thoughtful poet intrigued and exercised by the possibilities of literary form.
- Contents:
- Part I Philosophy
- Essay I 'I doubt if doubt itself be doubting': Scepticism, System and Poetry 15
- Essay II A 'Voice from out the Wilderness': Cain and Philosophical Poetry 43
- Part 2 Poetics
- Essay III The Need for 'all this': Johnson, Bowles and the Forms of Prose 75
- Essay IV 'I wish to do as much by Poesy': Amidst a Byronic Poetics 104
- Part 3 Outlines
- Essay V The Flower and the Gem: Narrative Form and the Traces of Eden 131
- Essay VI 'Glory's dream Unriddled': Politics and the Forms of War 146.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- KU Select 2017: Backlist Collection
- BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 101277
- ISBN:
- 9781846319716
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