Shelleyan Eros The Rhetoric of Romantic Love
by Ulmer, William Andrew
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0691068291
- ISBN 13
- 9780691068299
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About This Item
Princeton Univ Pr. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. 0691068291 . About new book, unmarked in crisp DJ ; 0.75 x 10 x 7 Inches; 187 pages; In this work William Ulmer boldly advances our understanding of Shelley's concept of love by exploring eros as a figure for the poet's political and artistic aspirations. Applying a combination of deconstructive, historicist, and psychoanalytic approaches to six major poems, Ulmer follows the logic of the writing's rhetoric of love by tracing links between such elements as imagination, eros, metaphor, allegory, mirroring, repetition, death, and narcissism. Ulmer takes the mutual desire of self and antitype as a paradigm for rhetorical and social relations throughout Shelley and, in a significant departure from critical consensus, argues that his poetics were predominantly idealist. Ulmer demonstrates how the idealism of Shelleyan eros centers on a symbiosis of contraries organized as a dialectical variation of metaphor. In so doing, he contends that this idealism is both a rhetorical construct and revolutionary agency, and traces the failure of Shelley's visionary humanism to the gradual emergence of contradictions latent in his idealism. What emerges are new readings of individual texts and a reconsideration of the poet's imaginative development. .
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- Bookseller
- B-Line Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22678
- Title
- Shelleyan Eros The Rhetoric of Romantic Love
- Author
- Ulmer, William Andrew
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0691068291
- ISBN 13
- 9780691068299
- Publisher
- Princeton Univ Pr
- Place of Publication
- Princeton
- Date Published
- 1990
- Keywords
- 0691068291, Literature & Fiction, Books, Criticism & Theory, History & Criticism, Love Poems, Poetry, British & Irish, British, World Literature
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