Romantic Poetry and the Fragmentary Imperative: Schlegel, Byron, Joyce, Blanchot

Uses the concept of the poetic fragment to draw connections between romantic poetry and modern literature and literary theory.

Romantic Poetry and the Fragmentary Imperative locates Byron (and, to a lesser extent, Joyce) within a genealogy of romantic poetry understood not so much as imaginative self-expression or ideological case study but rather as what the German romantics call "romantische poesie"-an experimental form of poetry loosely based on the fragmentary flexibility and acute criti...