Poetry, Media, and the Material Body

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Miller, Ashley

BuchKartoniert, Paperback

212 Seiten

Englisch

Cambridge University Presserschienen am26.11.2020

From the Romantic fascination with hallucinatory poetics to the turn-of-the-century mania for automatic writing, poetry in nineteenth-century Britain appears at crucial times to be oddly involuntary, out of the control of its producers and receivers alike. This elegant study addresses the question of how people understood those forms of written creativity that seem to occur independently of the writer's will. Through the study of the century's media revolutions, evolving theories of physiology, and close readings of the works of nineteenth-century poets including Wordsworth, Coleridge and Tennyson, Ashley Miller articulates how poetry was imagined to promote involuntary bodily responses in both authors and readers, and how these responses enlist the body as a medium that does not produce poetry but rather reproduces it. This is a poetics that draws attention to, rather than effaces, the mediacy of the body in the processes of composition and reception.mehr

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KlappentextFrom the Romantic fascination with hallucinatory poetics to the turn-of-the-century mania for automatic writing, poetry in nineteenth-century Britain appears at crucial times to be oddly involuntary, out of the control of its producers and receivers alike. This elegant study addresses the question of how people understood those forms of written creativity that seem to occur independently of the writer's will. Through the study of the century's media revolutions, evolving theories of physiology, and close readings of the works of nineteenth-century poets including Wordsworth, Coleridge and Tennyson, Ashley Miller articulates how poetry was imagined to promote involuntary bodily responses in both authors and readers, and how these responses enlist the body as a medium that does not produce poetry but rather reproduces it. This is a poetics that draws attention to, rather than effaces, the mediacy of the body in the processes of composition and reception.

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ISBN/GTIN978-1-108-40858-5

ProduktartBuch

EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback

Verlag

Cambridge University Press

Erscheinungsjahr2020

Erscheinungsdatum26.11.2020

Seiten212 Seiten

SpracheEnglisch

MasseBreite 152 mm, Höhe 229 mm, Dicke 12 mm

Gewicht315 g

Artikel-Nr.56753814

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GenreRomane Hardcover

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Introduction: the material muse in nineteenth-century poetry; 1. Striking passages: vision, memory, and the romantic imprint; 2. Internal impressions: self-sympathy and the poetry of sensation; 3. Listening with the mouth: Tennyson's deaths of Arthur; 4. Poetic afterlives: automatic writing and the mechanics of quotation; Conclusion: the autonomous poem: new criticism and the stock response; Bibliography.mehr