New PDF release: On Form: Poetry, Aestheticism, and the Legacy of a Word

By Angela Leighton

ISBN-10: 0199290601

ISBN-13: 9780199290604

ISBN-10: 0199551936

ISBN-13: 9780199551934

what's shape? Why does shape subject? during this ingenious and impressive learn, Angela Leighton assesses not just the legacy of Victorian aestheticism, and its richly creative key-phrase, 'form', but additionally the very nature of the literary. She indicates how writers, for 2 centuries and extra, have again to the assumption of shape as whatever which incorporates the key of paintings itself. She tracks the advance of the note from the Romantics to modern poets, and gives shut readings of, between others, Tennyson, Pater, Woolf, Yeats, Stevens, and Plath, to teach how shape has supplied the only most crucial manner of accounting for the activities of literary language itself. She investigates, for example, the outdated debate of shape and content material, of shape as track or sound-shape, because the ghostly dynamic and dynamics of a textual content, in addition to its lengthy organization with the aestheticist precept of being 'for nothing'. In a wide-ranging and artistic argument, she means that shape is the main to the excitement of the literary textual content, and that that excitement is a part of what literary feedback itself must resolution and convey.

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