The Reception of P. B. Shelley in Europe - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0826495877 ISBN 13: 9780826495877

Casa editrice: Continuum Intl Pub Group, 2008

Riassunto

The widespread and culturally significant impact of Percy Bysshe Shelley's writings in Europe constitutes a particularly interesting case for a reception study because of the variety of responses they evoked. If radical readers cherished the 'red' Shelley, others favoured the lyrical poet, whose work was, like Byron's, anthologized and set to music. His major dramatic works, The Cenci and Prometheus Unbound, inspired numerous fin-de-siècle and expressionist dramatists and producers from Paris to Moscow. Shelley was read by, and influenced, the novelist Stendhal, the political theorist Engels, the Spanish symbolist Jiménez, and the Russian modernist poet Akhmatova. This exciting collection of essays by an international team of leading scholars considers translations, critical and biographical reviews, fictionalizations of his life, and other creative responses. It probes into transnational cross-currents to demonstrate the depth of Shelley's impact on European culture since his death in 1822. It will be an indispensable research resource for academics, critics, and writers with interests in Romanticism and its legacies.

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Recensione:

[A] volume that excitingly probes Shelley s reception in a dizzyingly broad range of languages, from Catalan and Greek to Bulgarian and Romanian. --Year s work in English Studies journal, vol 89, No. 1

'The successive essays cover an unexpectedly inclusive variety of national situations, and repeatedly demonstrate the power of Shelley's different received images.' --reviewed in BARS, 2010

'This is a fascinating book with a wonderful range of afterlives and countries.' --The Keats-Shelley Journal, Jan 2011

L'autore:

Susanne Schmid has taught at the universities of FU Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, Princeton, Paderborn, Salford and Regensburg. She is the author of Shelley's German Afterlives 1814 – 2000 (2007).

Michael Rossington is Senior Lecturer in Romantic Literature in the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics at Newcastle University, UK. He is one of the editors of The Poems of Shelley, Vol. 3 (2009).

Elinor Shaffer, FBA is author of 'Kubla Khan' and The Fall of Jerusalem: The Mythological School in Biblical Criticism and Secular Literature, and many articles on English and European Romanticism, and most recently co-editor of The Reception of S.T. Coleridge in Europe.

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• Editore: Continuum Intl Pub Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0826495877
• ISBN 13: 9780826495877
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 391
• Redattore: Schmid Susanne, Rossington Michael