Self, text, and romantic irony : the example of Byron / Frederick Garber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Garber, Frederick, author.

Series:

Princeton legacy library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry--Psychological aspects.

Poetry.

Self in literature.

Irony in literature.

Romanticism.

Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824--Criticism and interpretation.

Byron, George Gordon Byron.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (339 pages).

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1988.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Frederick Garber takes up in detail several problems of the self broached in his previous book, The Autonomy of the Self from Richardson to Huysmans (Princeton, 1982). Using patterns in Byron's canon as models, he focuses on the relations of self-making and text-making as a central Romantic issue. For Byron and many of his contemporaries, putting a text into the world meant putting a self there along with it, and it also meant that the difficulties of establishing the one inevitably reflect the parallel difficulties in the other.Professor Garber discusses some of Byron's key texts and shows how their development leads to an impasse involving both self and text. Byron's way out of these dilemmas was the mode of Romantic irony, of which he is one of the greatest exemplars. The study then moves into broader areas of Anglo-European literature, its ultimate purpose being to argue not only for the efficacy of such irony but for its position as something more than a mere alternative to Romantic organicism.Originally published in 1988.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

A Note òn Texts

Acknowledgments

Part One

I. Beginning Harold

2. Self-Consuming Symmetries

3. An Oriental Twist

4. Continuing Manfred

Part Two

5. Lucid Contours

6. Irony and Organicism: Mind, Memory, and Place

7. Irony and Organicism: Origin and Textuality

8. Irony and Organicism: Figures of Relation

Part Three

9. Self and the Language of Satire

10. Satire and the Making of Selves

Select Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages 313-317.

ISBN:

0-691-63026-7

0-691-60032-5

1-4008-5936-0

OCLC:

805494923