Shelley's poetics of reticence : Shelley's shame

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    • Roberts, Merrilees

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Shelley's poetics of reticence : Shelley's shame

Merrilees Roberts

(Routledge studies in romanticism, 33)

Routledge, 2020

  • : hbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

Exploring the rhetorical and phenomenological links between shame and reticence, this book examines the psychology of Shelley's anguished poet-Subject. Shelley's struggles with the fragility of the 'self' have largely been seen as the result of thinking which connects emotional hyperstimulation to moral and political undermining of the individual 'will'. This work takes a different approach, suggesting that Shelley's insecurities stemmed from anxieties about the nature of aesthetic self-representation. Shame is an appropriate affective marker of such anxiety because it occurs at the cusp between internal and external self-evaluation. Shelley's reticent poetics transfers an affective sense of shame to the reader and provokes interpretive responsibility. Paying attention to the affective contours of texts, this book presents new readings of Shelley's major works. These interpretations show that awakening the reader's ethical discretion creates a constructive dynamic which challenges influential deconstructive readings of the unfinished nature of Shelley's work and thought.

目次

Introduction i Shelley's Shames ii Shame Theories iii Reticence iv Affect and Romanticism v Texts Chapter One: Reticent Impersonations: Shelley's Unhappy Consciousness i The Empty Subject ii Bad Faith iii Shame and Ideology iv Historicism v The Problems of Materialism Chapter Two: Alastor's Mute Poets i Shelley and Wordsworth ii Rejecting 'natural piety' iii The veiled maid and the disgrace of the alternative iv The narrator as victim of his own constructions Chapter Three: Shame, Silence and Historicism in The Cenci i Beatrice's Casuistry ii Shame and De-humanisation iii Shame as Self-construction Chapter Four: Julian and Maddalo: What the 'cold world shall not know' i The Reticence of 'the cold world' and Shelley's Critique of Symbols ii The Maniac's Resistance and Byron's 'Prometheus' iii The Maniac's Performance of Shame iv Julian's Reserve Chapter Five: Metaphysical Sympathies i Sympathetic Poetics in A Defence of Poetry ii Transcending the Ego in Ode to the West Wind, Mont Blanc, Ode to Intellectual Beauty and Adonais Chapter Six: The Jane Poems: Love, Lyric and Life i Eroticism and the hollowness of the "Lyric I" ii Sensory Bad faith iii Beyond Denial Chapter Seven: The Triumph of Life: Pleasure versus process and the shame of self-knowledge i The Failure of Allegory ii Rousseau as the Subject-in-Shame iii Countering the 'cold glare' Conclusion

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