Thinking through poetry : field reports on romantic lyric / Marjorie Levinson.

Thinking Through Poetry' is a work of and about literary criticism. It offers new readings of poems from the canon of British Romanticism and it narrates, enacts, and theorizes the arc of the scholarship on that field from the 1980s through the present.

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Main Author: Levinson, Marjorie (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Edition:First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Thinking through Poetry: Field Reports on Romantic Lyric; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Illustrations; 1. Introduction: Crooked Lines and Moving Targets; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; PART I. THEORY: MATERIALISM AGAINST ITSELF; 2. The New Historicism: Back to the Future; 1; 2; It Must Be Abstract; It Must Change; 3; 3. Romantic Poetry: The State of the Art; 1; 2; 3; 4. Pre- and Post-Dialectical Materialism: Modeling Praxis without Subjects and Objects; 5. A Motion and a Spirit: Romancing Spinoza; 1; 2; 3; 4; APPENDIX A; APPENDIX B; APPENDIX C; APPENDIX D; APPENDIX E
  • 6. What is New Formalism?1; 2; 3; 4; PART II. CRITICISM: FIELD THEORIES OF FORM; 7. Of Being Numerous; 1; 2; 3; 4; 8. Notes and Queries on Names and Numbers; 1; 2; 3; 4; 9. Parsing the Frost: The Growth of a Poet's Sentence in "Frost at Midnight"; POSTSCRIPT; 10. Still Life without References: or, The Plain Sense of Things; 1; 2; 3. Intertexts; 4. Pictures; 5. Reading; 6; 11. Conclusion: Lyric-The Idea of this Invention; Bibliography; Index