Byron and the Limits of FictionBernard G. Beatty, Vincent Newey Liverpool University Press, 1988 - 291 sider This collection of new articles aims to answer the fundamental questions of Byron's attitude to fiction and to the limits inherent in this art form and in life itself. The book's purpose, as well as celebrating the bicentennial of Byron's birth, has been to assemble a collection of scholarly and informed articles round a particular theme. In this work the theme (given in the title) arises in two ways; first, Byron himself was passionately concerned with the nature and status of fiction and yet often sceptical of its importance. Secondly, it is a major topic of current literary criticism which is increasingly preoccupied with fictions as completely autonomous structures. Byron's poetry should be seen as a version of these concerns but also as one of the earliest deliberate challenges to them. All of Byron's major poems, together with his forays into prose fiction, are considered in this volume. Contributors pursue their own approaches but a particular emphasis of the volume as a whole is the strange immediacy of Byron's poetry, which seems to arise from both the self-consciousness of his undertaking and from his fidelity to what is rather than what is merely known or stated. The method of most contributors is to address these important topics, but substantiate their arguments by detailed reading of texts. |
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... character of history but his poetry holds to , derives intelligibility and force from , given myths of explana- tion . Aurora Raby has been our object of attention and we are not yet finished with her because , though myths explain by ...
... character of history but his poetry holds to , derives intelligibility and force from , given myths of explana- tion . Aurora Raby has been our object of attention and we are not yet finished with her because , though myths explain by ...
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... character that he has himself created but ... he establishes the illusion that she possesses a life independent of his mind , a life of which he is not entirely the master'.31 How can this be so ? The easiest way would be for Aurora to ...
... character that he has himself created but ... he establishes the illusion that she possesses a life independent of his mind , a life of which he is not entirely the master'.31 How can this be so ? The easiest way would be for Aurora to ...
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... characters not so much to contrast as to partially mirror each other . Where Polidori's narrator is constantly looking over Aubrey's shoulder to ironize the intensity of his reactions Byron makes his young character the narrator . Since ...
... characters not so much to contrast as to partially mirror each other . Where Polidori's narrator is constantly looking over Aubrey's shoulder to ironize the intensity of his reactions Byron makes his young character the narrator . Since ...
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Fictions Limit and Edens Door BERNARD BEATTY I | 1 |
Lyric Presence in Byron from the Tales to | 39 |
The Orientalism of Byrons Giaour MARILYN | 78 |
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