Imageless Truths: Shelley's Poetic FictionsUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 2016 M11 11 - 248 pages In Imageless Truths, Karen A. Weisman offers a new reading of Shelley's work in the context of the poet's changing constructions of poetic fictions. Shelley's understanding of language in general, and of the fictions and their rhetorical trope in particular, evolved throughout his career, and Weisman argues that it is in his self-consciousness over these transformations that we can find the primary motivating factor in the poet's philosophical and literary development. |
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... Ideal Forms and the mutable world would have been viewed by Shelley through a vista of British skepticism . Locke's An Essay Concern- ing Human Understanding is most helpful in orienting us to the received problem of articulation in its ...
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Contents
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2 The Awful Shadow of Some Unseen Power | 39 |
3 The Language of the Dead | 71 |
4 Sweetest Songs That Tell of Saddest Thought | 113 |
5 With More Than Truth Exprest | 147 |
Notes | 179 |
Bibliography | 213 |
Index | 225 |