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Unremarkable Wordsworth
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William Wordsworth was attacked by the critics of his time for imposing unremarkable sights and sentiments on his audience. In this books title essay, an exemplary reading of the Westminster Bridge sonnet, Geoffrey Hartman shows how Wordsworths unremarkable phrases attain their curious vigor. Drawing upon the propositions of semiological analysis - that signs are not signs unless they become perceptible, through the contrast between marked and unmarked - Hartman, in a deft and sensitive analysis, is able to play these notions of marking and the unremarkable off against each other. Wordsworth, in the end, overcomes both his critics and the science of signs: his quiet sonnet - with its muted or near-absent signs - is itself, as epitaph for an era, a faithful sign of the times.Hartmans capacity to open up a dialogue between contemporary theory and Wordsworths poetry informs all of these essays, written since the 1964 publication of Wordsworths Poetry, a book that marked an epoch in the study of that poet and of Romantic poetry in general. In the years since then, the nature of literary study has changed dramatically, and Hartman has been a leader in the turn to theoretical modes of interpretation. The fifteen essays in The Unremarkable Wordsworth draw upon a wide range of contemporary theoretical approaches, from psychoanalysis to structuralism, from deconstruction to phenomenology. Yet, as Donald Marshall points out in his foreword, Wordsworth remains so much the focus of this book that critical method is strangely transmuted. For Hartman, reading and thinking are inseparable; he has an uncanny power to convey in an intensified form the poets own consciousness, not under the rubric of intertextuality but because he has ears to hear.
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University of Minnesota Press; June 1983
280 pages; ISBN 9780816681860
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280 pages; ISBN 9780816681860
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Subject categories
- Academic > Literature > English literature > Poetry > By period
- Academic > Literature > English literature > Literary history and criticism
- Academic > Literature > English literature > Criticism
- Academic > Literature > English literature > 19th century, 1770/1800-1890/1900
- Literary Criticism > Poetry
- Literary Criticism > Semiotics & Literary Theory
- Foreign Language Books
- Poetry
- Foreign Language Study
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0816681864
9780816611751
9780816681860
