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Zusatztext '... the book is admirable for its fearlessness! its attempt to do something new in Shelley studies... Vatalaro may very well prove to be one of the prominent Shelleyans of his time.' New Books on Literature-19 Informationen zum Autor Paul Vatalaro is an associate professor in the English Department at Merrimack College, USA. Klappentext Shelley's Music demonstrates that Shelley's desire to merge word, conventionally identified as masculine, with music and voice, conventionally identified as feminine, represents a fantasy designed to ensure the preservation of his authority by making his voice eternally present in his poetry. Recycling throughout his writing and characterized by deadlock and instability, Shelley's fantasy paradoxically supports an even more compelling desire to preserve his subjectivity and maintain his authority as poet. Zusammenfassung Regards music images and allusions to music in Shelley's writing as evidence that Shelley sought to infuse the masculine word with the music of feminine expression. This book demonstrates that the main body of Shelley's writing consists of a fantasy aimed at unifying the word, traditionally associated with masculine power and authority. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Introduction; Subjectivity and the self-present voice; Poetic authority and 'interpassivity'; Sounding the 'real'; Power, desire and poetics; Conclusion: fantasy and renunciation; Bibliography; Index.
