Wordsworth, Dialogics and the Practice of Criticism

Klappentext This challenging book uses the case of Wordsworth studies to make a far-reaching survey of modern literary theory and its implications. Zusammenfassung Wordsworth's poetry has been a focus for many of the theoretical schools of criticism that comprise modern literary studies. This challenging book uses the case of Wordsworth studies to make a far-reaching survey of modern literary theory and its implications for the practice of criticism and teaching today. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; List of abbreviations used in text and notes; 1. Wordsworth, literary history and the constitution of literature; 2. Displacing Coleridge, replacing Wordsworth; 3. Wordsworth's dialogic art; 4. Dialogics of the lyric: a symposium on 'Westminster Bridge' and 'Beauteous Evening'; 5. Social action in 'The Solitary Reaper'; 6. What de Man has made of Wordsworth; 7. The revival of rhetoric and the reading of Wordsworth's Prelude; 8. Theoretical commitments and Wordsworthian pedagogies; 9. Wordsworth, Allan Bloom and liberal education; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Don H. Bialostosky, Don H. (University of Toledo Bialostosky
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.1992
• EAN: 9780521412490
• ISBN: 978-0-521-41249-0
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Literature, Culture, Theory
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies