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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... poet's evolving constructions of — and self - consciousness with respect to- poetic fictions . ' Shelley's understanding of language in general , and of fictions and their rhetorical tropes in particular , underwent perpetual ...
... poet will fall short of his initial model : " However exalt- ed a notion we would wish to cherish of the character of a Poet , it is obvi- ous , that while he describes and imitates passions , his situation is altogether slavish and ...
... poet in his dreams " ( 1.68 ) had ever witnessed " so bright , so fair , so wild a shape " ( 1.74 ) , Shelley signals his already overdeveloped desire to describe the ineffable , to figure conceptu- alizations whose integrity is held to ...
... poet acquainted with them , the adoption of a complacent attitude with respect to his art . The problem is , of course , that Shelley has not yet resolved on a definitive stance with respect to his own art , and so his early poetry some ...
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Contents
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| 10 | |
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 |