Thomas De Quincey - Knowledge and Power

Informationen zum Autor Frederick Burwick is a Research Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. Klappentext This book examines what De Quincey called 'psychological criticism', a mode of studying how 'literature of power' arouses ideas and images dormant in the subconscious. He explores this 'power' by means of an introspective analysis of the effects produced in his own mind by reading Shakespeare and Milton, Wordsworth and Coleridge. Discussion of De Quincey's critical and narrative prose includes his skilled rewriting of a German forgery of a Waverly novel, as well as such better known works as 'Suspiria de Profundis', Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts.' 'On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth', 'The English Mail-Coach,' and 'Wordsworth's Poetry.' New insight into each of these works is provided by drawing on a wealth of previously unpublished manuscripts. Zusammenfassung This book examines what De Quincey called 'psychological criticism', a mode of studying how 'literature of power' arouses ideas and images dormant in the subconscious. He explores this 'power' by means of an introspective analysis of the effects produced in his own mind by reading Shakespeare and Milton, Wordsworth and Coleridge. Discussion of De Quincey's critical and narrative prose includes his skilled rewriting of a German forgery of a Waverly novel, as well as such better known works as 'Suspiria de Profundis', Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts.' 'On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth', 'The English Mail-Coach,' and 'Wordsworth's Poetry.' New insight into each of these works is provided by drawing on a wealth of previously unpublished manuscripts. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction Knowledge and Power Sir Walter Scott and the Literary Pirates Murder and the Aesthetics of Violence Shakespearean Involutes Miltonic Overtures Wordsworthean Associations Bibliography

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: F Burwick, F. Burwick, Frederick Burwick, Burwick Frederick
• Editore: Palgrave UK
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 23.05.2001
• EAN: 9780333774038
• ISBN: 978-0-333-77403-8
• Pagine: 205
• Serie: Romanticism in Perspective:Texts, Cultures, Histories; Romanticism in Perspective; Romanticism in Perspective:Texts, Cultures, Histories; Romanticism in Perspective; Romanticism in Perspective: Te
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Altre lingue / altre letterature; Literaturtheorie, Europa, B, Literaturwissenschaft: 1800 bis 1900, William Wordsworth, auseinandersetzen, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary theory, European Literature, Literature, Modern—19th century, Nineteenth-Century Literature, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Literature—Philosophy, Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection