Auto-poetica: Representations of the Creative Process in Nineteenth-century British and American FictionDarby Lewes The nineteenth-century Kunstlerroman self-consciously addresses the devices of fiction and in doing so, tends toward irony and self-reflection, and prefigures postmodernism. A work of art written about an artist creating a work of art is, in a sense, a novel in which the author is a character. The essays in this collection examine the work of major nineteenth century authors that attempted to merge fiction and reality into a unified whole. These novels paved the way for postmodernists who would use the artist-novel to self-conciously focus on the genre's particular conventions, to parody those conventions in order to accentuate the work's fictionality, and to expose the oppositions between fiction and reality. This collection thus reveals not only material concerns, but the underlying anxieties, drives, and joys, which are so profoundly linked to the creative process." |
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Page ix
... poets and poetic composition are driven by some supernatural force . Human memory and divine inspiration were the stuff of art , and since the gifts of memory and song are god - given , and since the.
... poets and poetic composition are driven by some supernatural force . Human memory and divine inspiration were the stuff of art , and since the gifts of memory and song are god - given , and since the.
Page x
... poet a " divine madman . " Even Plato , who considered poets to be liars for the most part , asserts in Ion that " all good poets , epic as well as lyric , compose their beautiful poems not by art , but because they are inspired and ...
... poet a " divine madman . " Even Plato , who considered poets to be liars for the most part , asserts in Ion that " all good poets , epic as well as lyric , compose their beautiful poems not by art , but because they are inspired and ...
Page xi
... poet as one in whom " the approximation to the beautiful ... exists in excess " ( 780 ) . A poet , it would seem , is a human being just like you or I — only much , much better . But just how do poets become " endued " with such gifts ...
... poet as one in whom " the approximation to the beautiful ... exists in excess " ( 780 ) . A poet , it would seem , is a human being just like you or I — only much , much better . But just how do poets become " endued " with such gifts ...
Page xiii
... poet / muse relationship in Smith's Elegiac Sonnets . She challenges traditional critical notions that Smith's project is ... poetic tradition that separates the subject from the object . " The social construction of gender is evident in ...
... poet / muse relationship in Smith's Elegiac Sonnets . She challenges traditional critical notions that Smith's project is ... poetic tradition that separates the subject from the object . " The social construction of gender is evident in ...
Page xiv
... poetic theories in Victorian England and how they affected Arthur Hugh Clough's poetic vision in " Twisted thinkings ' : Poetry as Therapy in the Work of Arthur Hugh Clough . " Clough " dramaticises " the personal and poetic ...
... poetic theories in Victorian England and how they affected Arthur Hugh Clough's poetic vision in " Twisted thinkings ' : Poetry as Therapy in the Work of Arthur Hugh Clough . " Clough " dramaticises " the personal and poetic ...
Contents
V | 1 |
VII | 13 |
IX | 37 |
X | 51 |
XII | 63 |
XIII | 65 |
XIV | 73 |
XV | 91 |
XX | 139 |
XXI | 151 |
XXII | 163 |
XXIII | 173 |
XXIV | 175 |
XXV | 185 |
XXVI | 193 |
XXVII | 201 |
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