Feeding on Infinity: Readings in the Romantic Rhetoric of Internalization - Rilegato

Wilner, Joshua

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ISBN 10: 0801863244 ISBN 13: 9780801863240

Casa editrice: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, 2000

Riassunto

Explores the power and limits of the discourse surrounding internalization through close readings of Romantic texts by Wordsworth, De Quincey, Rousseau, Baudelaire, Freud, Benjamin, and Sedgwick. Situating the emergence of internalization as part of the history of what Gertrude Stein called "patriarchal poetics," and finding internalization frequently condensed into figures of eating and drinking, Wilner (English and comparative literature, City College and CUNY Graduate Center, New York) approaches these and other considerations with readings in the tradition of deconstruction, psychoanalysis and gender studies. Wilner states that "the notion of internalization tends to be handled...as a known quantity, whereas I am arguing that the notion itself remains obscure and thus that the problem of internalization and the problem of Romanticism may indeed, with respect to the discourse of literary history, be closely intertwined." Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Recensione

"[Wilner] is a calm, accessible advocate of new French-derived critical postures: mulling over a phrase here, a metaphor there, a parallel here, a contradistinction there. He aims to inspire rather than to drown his reader after exhaustive efforts, and in this he is successful." -- Choice

Descrizione del libro

What "internalization" means for writers and critics of Romanticism, including Rousseau, Wordsworth, De Quincey, Baudelaire, Freud, Benjamin, and Sedgwick

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0801863244
• ISBN 13: 9780801863240
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 154
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile