Post-structuralist Readings of English Poetry

by Richard Machin, Christopher Norris

Overview

A group of leading critics have been invited to offer close readings of well-known poetic texts from the established canon of English literature. The volume is organised historically, with texts ranging from the Renaissance, Augustan and Romantic periods through to the twentieth century. All the essays are motivated by ideas and debates in critical theory and will prove a challenge to conventional valuations and ways of construing literary history. By combining theory and practical application, this volume should prove particularly helpful to those keen to pursue the implications of current critical theory.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521315838
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	01/29/1987
Pages:	420
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.20(d)

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors; Introduction Richard Machin and Christopher Norris; 1. Presentation and representation in the Renaissance lyric: the net of words and the escape of the gods Murray Krieger; 3. Speculations: Macbeth and source Jonathan Goldberg; 4. Trust and transgression: the discursive practices of Much Ado about Nothing John Drakakis; 5. Donne's praise of folly Thomas Docherty; 6. Love and death in 'To His Coy Mistress' Catherine Belsey; 7. Towards the autonomous subject in poetry: Milton's 'On His Blindness' Antony Easthope; 8. Pope among the formalists: textual politics and 'The Rape of the Lock' Christopher Norris; 9. Gray's 'Elegy': inscribing the twilight Stephen Bygrave; 10. From topos to trope, from sensibility to Romanticism: Collins's 'Ode To Fear' Harold Bloom; 11. Sex and history in The Prelude (1805): Books IX to XIII Gayatri C. Spivak; 12. Bounding lines: The Prelude and critical revision Jonathan Arac; 13. Coleridge and the deluded reader: 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' Frances Ferguson; 14. Evening star and evening land Geoffrey Hartman; 15. Ozone: an essay on Keats Richard Rand; 16. Strategies of containment: Tennyson's In Memoriam Rob Johnson; 17. Topography and tropography in Thomas Hardy's 'In Front of the Landscape' J. Hillis Miller; 18. Yeats in theory Daniel O'Hara; 19. The spider and the weevil: self and writing in Eliot's early poetry Maud Ellmann; 20. Frost's thanatography Wallace Martin.