Romantic Vision and the Novel
Title | Romantic Vision and the Novel PDF eBook |
Author | Jay Clayton |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2009-07-02 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521115117 |
In this important contribution to the poetics of fiction Dr Jay Clayton examines the way the Romantic visionary moment alters narrative structure in the novel. This study provides the first account of the relationship between Romanticism and the English novel, giving detailed attention to the formal issues of genre and representation, as well as to the social and ethical assumptions that govern apparently formal considerations. Informed by literary, psychoanalytic and narrative theory, Romantic Vision and the Novel is written in a clear and forceful style that will help many readers come to terms with these difficult subjects. Through detailed and original interpretations of works by Richardson, Austen, Emily Bronte, Dickens, George Eliot and Lawrence, Clayton establishes the importance for what they can reveal about each other and for what their relationship reveals about the larger functional of literature in society.
The Romantic Vision of Caspar David Friedrich
Title | The Romantic Vision of Caspar David Friedrich PDF eBook |
Author | Caspar David Friedrich |
Publisher | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Pages | 122 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Drawing, German |
ISBN | 0870996037 |
This book is about the paintings of Casper David Friedrich.
The Romantic Vision
Title | The Romantic Vision PDF eBook |
Author | Gerald Herman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 166 |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | Romanticism in art |
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Love's Vision
Title | Love's Vision PDF eBook |
Author | Troy Jollimore |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 2011-07-05 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1400838673 |
Love often seems uncontrollable and irrational, but we just as frequently appear to have reasons for loving the people we do. In Love's Vision, Troy Jollimore offers a new way of understanding love that accommodates both of these facts, arguing that love is guided by reason even as it resists and sometimes eludes rationality. At the same time, he reconsiders love's moral status, acknowledging its moral dangers while arguing that it is, at heart, a moral phenomenon--an emotion that demands empathy and calls us away from excessive self-concern. Love is revealed as neither wholly moral nor deeply immoral, neither purely rational nor profoundly irrational. Rather, as Diotima says in Plato's Symposium, love is "something in between." Jollimore makes his case by proposing a "vision" view of love, according to which loving is a way of seeing that involves bestowing charitable attention on a loved one. This view recognizes the truth in the cliché "love is blind," but holds that love's blindness does not undermine the idea that love is guided by reason. Reasons play an important role in love even if they rest on facts that are not themselves rationally justifiable. Filled with illuminating examples from literature, Love's Vision is an original examination of a subject of vital philosophical and human concern.
Romantic Revelations
Title | Romantic Revelations PDF eBook |
Author | Chris Washington |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Pages | 263 |
Release | 2019-08-22 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1487530323 |
Romantic Revelations shows that the nonhuman is fundamental to Romanticism’s political responses to climatic catastrophes. Exploring what he calls "post-apocalyptic Romanticism," Chris Washington intervenes in the critical conversation that has long defined Romanticism as an apocalyptic field. "Apocalypse" means "the revelation of a perfected world," which sees Romanticism’s back-to-nature environmentalism as a return to paradise and peace on earth. Romantic Revelations, however, demonstrates that the destructive climate change events of 1816, "the year without a summer," changed Romantic thinking about the environment and the end of the world. Their post-apocalyptic visions correlate to the beginning of the Anthropocene, the time when humans initiated the possible extinction of their own species and potentially the earth. Rather than constructing paradises where humans are reborn or human existence ends, the later Romantics are interested in how to survive in the ashes after great social and climatic global disasters. Romantic Revelations argues that Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, John Clare, and Jane Austen sketch out a post-apocalyptic world that, in contrast to the sunnier Romantic narratives, is paradoxically the vision that offers us hope. In thinking through life after disaster, Washington contends that these authors craft an optimistic vision of the future that leads to a new politics.
The Romantic Vision
Title | The Romantic Vision PDF eBook |
Author | Walker Art Center |
Publisher | |
Pages | 38 |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | Landscape painting |
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The Romantic Vision
Title | The Romantic Vision PDF eBook |
Author | David Bryan Spruill |
Publisher | |
Pages | 50 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Aesthetics |
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