Discourse of Self in Victorian Poetry

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This book places Victorian poetry within the context of a radical shift over the last 150 years in the key European model for human definition and experience- from the metaphor of self to the metaphor of text. In this innovative approach Warwick Slinn examines the continuities from Hegel to Derrida in order to explain the force and challenge poetry which disrupts the assumptions of idealist lyricism.

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This book places Victorian poetry within the context of a radical shift over the last 150 years in the key European model for human definition and experience- from the metaphor of self to the metaphor of text. In this innovative approach Warwick Slinn examines the continuities from Hegel to Derrida in order to explain the force and challenge poetry which disrupts the assumptions of idealist lyricism.

E. Warwick Slinn is Senior Lecturer in English at Massey University in New Zealand. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Victorian Studies Centre, University of Leicester, and a Visiting Scholar at the University of Sydney. In 1989 he was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Virginia and Duke University. He is the author of Browning and the Fictions of Identity.

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Identifies the contribution of some major 19th-century poems to the gradual shift from the self to the text as a model for human definition and experience, which is outlined in its 150-year course between Hegel and Derrida. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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  • ISBN-13: 9780813913094
  • Publisher: University of Virginia Press
  • Publication date: 1/28/1991
  • Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series
  • Pages: 213
  • Product dimensions: 5.60 (w) x 8.50 (h) x 0.70 (d)

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E. Warwick Slinn is Senior Lecturer in English at Massey University in New Zealand. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Victorian Studies Centre, University of Leicester, and a Visiting Scholar at the University of Sydney. In 1989 he was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Virginia and Duke University. He is the author of Browning and the Fictions of Identity.

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