On form : poetry, aestheticism, and the legacy of a word
著者
書誌事項
On form : poetry, aestheticism, and the legacy of a word
Oxford University Press, 2007
大学図書館所蔵 件 / 全7件
-
該当する所蔵館はありません
- すべての絞り込み条件を解除する
注記
Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
What is form? Why does form matter? In this imaginative and ambitious study, Angela Leighton assesses not only the legacy of Victorian aestheticism, and its richly resourceful keyword, 'form', but also the very nature of the literary. She shows how writers, for two centuries and more, have returned to the idea of form as something which contains the secret of art itself. She tracks the development of the word from the Romantics to contemporary poets, and offers close
readings of, among others, Tennyson, Pater, Woolf, Yeats, Stevens, and Plath, to show how form has provided the single most important way of accounting for the movements of literary language itself. She investigates, for instance, the old debate of form and content, of form as music or sound-shape,
as the ghostly dynamic and dynamics of a text, as well as its long association with the aestheticist principle of being 'for nothing'. In a wide-ranging and inventive argument, she suggests that form is the key to the pleasure of the literary text, and that that pleasure is part of what literary criticism itself needs to answer and convey.
目次
- 1. Form's Matter: A Retrospective
- 2. Art for Art: On Pots, Crocks, Lyres, and Flutes
- 3. Touching Forms: Tennyson and Aestheticism
- 4. Aesthetic Conditions: Pater's Re-Forming Style
- 5. Seeing Nothing: Vernon Lee's Ghostly Aesthetics
- 6. Just a Word: On Woolf
- 7. Yeats's Feet
- 8. Wallace Stevens' Eccentric Souvenirs
- 9. W. S. Graham: In the Mind's Ear
- 10. Forms of Elegy: Stevenson, Muldoon, Hill, Fisher
- 11. Elegies of Form: Bishop, Plath, Stevenson
- 12. Nothing, but: An Afterword
「Nielsen BookData」 より
