Blank Splendour : Mere Existence in British Romanticism / David Collings.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Collings, David, 1940-2020, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English poetry.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (185 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press, [2024]

Summary:

"Blank Splendour focuses on moments in British poetry and art that depict a state from which the ordinary attributes of existence--time and space, subject and object, articulation and differentiation--have fallen away, leaving a domain prior to the world and to thought, a condition that the author calls "mere existence." It thus shares much with what Emmanuel Levinas depicts as the situation of the mind at night, when all appearances dissolve in the dark, creating a scene in which nothing happens except for the persistence of this non-happening, the presence of the mere there is. In this state, the substantial, grounded condition of being gives way to a mode without origin, justification, destination, or guarantee, revealing that any supposed ontological foundation has been erased, leaving in its wake only this erased state itself, this blank condition."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Blank Misgivings: Primary Affect in Wordsworth

Blank Accident: Nothing's Anomaly in the Late Coleridge

Blank Splendour: The Debris of History in Keats's Hyperion Poems

Blank Oblivion: Wasted Life in Clare's "Obscurity"

Blank Light: Annihilating Radiance in Turner.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781487556051

1487556055

9781487556068

1487556063

OCLC:

1405845104