Byron's Dialectic: Skepticism and the Critique of CultureBucknell University Press, 1993 - 185 sider This book includes commentaries on the major poems Manfred, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, and Don Juan, with substantial consideration of Byron's prose and with one of the most comprehensive studies of Cain ever written. |
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| 13 | |
Culture Convention and Indeterminacy | 34 |
Cain and the Critique of Culture | 100 |
Notes | 152 |
Bibliography | 174 |
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Byron's Dialectic: Skepticism and the Critique of Culture Terence Allan Hoagwood Utdragsvisning - 1993 |
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Abel Adah Adam Annas and Barnes appears argue articulates atheism belief Byron's poems Byron's skepticism Cain Cain's Childe Harold Childe Harold's Pilgrimage classical skeptics cognitive conceptual conflict consciousness contradictions critical critique cultural delusion dialogue doctrine dogmatic Don Juan doubt doxa dream Drummond Edinburgh Review epoche example fact fiction figment frame hermeneutic historical Hoagwood human ideology illusion intellectual intention interpretation irony isostheneia issues language Lara Lord Byron Lucifer Lucifer's Manfred Marjarum McGann meaning mental suspension ments mind Modes of Scepticism Myles Burnyeat narrator negative dialectic Nemerov's object opposition Paradise perception phenomenal circle philosophical philosophical skeptics play play's poetry problem of knowledge prose Pyrrho Pyrrhonists question reality reference relativity religion reprinted Romantic Romanticism says sense Sextus Sextus Empiricus Shelley skeptical arguments skeptical discourse Skeptical Tradition skeptical trope social stanza statement structure theory thing thou thought tion truth University Press voice
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Side 94 - Tis to create, and in creating live A being more intense, that we endow With form our fancy, gaining as we give The life we image, even as I do now.
Side 51 - There's doubtless something in domestic doings Which forms, in fact, true Love's antithesis; Romances paint at full length people's wooings, But only give a bust of marriages ; For no one cares for matrimonial cooings, There's nothing wrong in a connubial kiss : Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's wife, He would have written sonnets all his life?
Side 97 - I am glad you like it; it is a fine indistinct piece of poetical desolation, and my favourite. I was half mad during the time of its composition, between metaphysics, mountains, lakes, love unextinguishable, thoughts unutterable, and the nightmare of my own delinquencies.
Side 72 - It seems strange ; a true voluptuary will never abandon his mind to the grossness of reality. It is by exalting the earthly> the material, the physique of our pleasures, by veiling these ideas, by forgetting them altogether, or, at least, never naming them hardly to one's self, that we alone can prevent them from disgusting.
Side 56 - Look on this spot — a nation's sepulchre ! Abode of gods, whose shrines no longer burn. Even gods must yield — religions take their turn : 'Twas Jove's — 'tis Mahomet's — and other creeds Will rise with other years, till man shall learn Vainly his incense soars, his victim bleeds; Poor child of Doubt and Death, whose hope is built on reeds.
Side 87 - As for me, by the blessing of indifference, I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments ; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better nor worse for a people than another.
Side 121 - I was unborn: I sought not to be born; nor love the state To which that birth has brought me. Why did he Yield to the serpent and the woman? or, Yielding, why suffer? What was there in this? The tree was planted, and why not for him? If not, why place him near it, where it grew, The fairest in the centre? They have but One answer to all questions, '"Twas His will And He is good.
Side 101 - We therefore think that poets ought fairly to be confined to the established creed and morality of their country, or to the actual passions and sentiments of mankind ; and that poetical dreamers and sophists who pretend to theorise according to their feverish fancies, without a warrant from authority or reason, ought to be banished the commonwealth of letters.
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A Materialist Critique of English Romantic Drama Daniel P. Watkins Ingen forhåndsvisning tilgjengelig - 1993 |
Byron and Place: History, Translation, Nostalgia Stephen Cheeke Ingen forhåndsvisning tilgjengelig - 2003 |