Tennyson's Rapture: Transformation in the Victorian Dramatic MonologueOxford University Press, 29 jan 2008 - 408 pagina's In the wake of the death of his friend Arthur Henry Hallam, the subject of In Memoriam, Alfred Tennyson wrote a range of intricately connected poems, many of which feature pivotal scenes of rapture, or being carried away. This book explores Tennyson's representation of rapture as a radical mechanism of transformation-theological, social, political, or personal-and as a figure for critical processes in his own poetics. The poet's fascination with transformation is figured formally in the genre he is credited with inventing, the dramatic monologue. Tennyson's Rapture investigates the poet's previously unrecognized intimacy with the theological movements in early Victorian Britain that are the acknowledged roots of contemporary Pentacostalism, with its belief in the oncoming Rapture, and its formative relation to his poetic innovation. Tennyson's work recurs persistently as well to classical instances of rapture, of mortals being borne away by immortals. Pearsall develops original readings of Tennyson's major classical poems through concentrated attention to his profound intellectual investments in advances in philological scholarship and archeological exploration, including pressing Victorian debates over whether Homer's raptured Troy was a verifiable site, or the province of the poet's imagination. Tennyson's attraction to processes of personal and social change is bound to his significant but generally overlooked Whig ideological commitments, which are illuminated by Hallam's political and philosophical writings, and a half-century of interaction with William Gladstone. Pearsall shows the comprehensive engagement of seemingly apolitical monologues with the rise of democracy over the course of Tennyson's long career. Offering a new approach to reading all Victorian dramatic monologues, this book argues against a critical tradition that sees speakers as unintentionally self-revealing and ignorant of the implications of their speech. Tennyson's Rapture probes the complex aims of these discursive performances, and shows how the ambitions of speakers for vital transformations in themselves and their circumstances are not only articulated in, but attained through, the medium of their monologues. |
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... similes, which can function theatrically, performing their functions by calling attention (through the use of terms such as “like” and “as”) to the performance of their functions. In this, they are like (so to speak) the dramatic ...
... similes, which can function theatrically, performing their functions by calling attention (through the use of terms such as “like” and “as”) to the performance of their functions. In this, they are like (so to speak) the dramatic ...
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... simile. I review a series of subjects that have long dominated criticism of this genre, including the issues of intention (of the poet and of the speaker), reception (by auditors and by readers), and context (both internal and external ...
... simile. I review a series of subjects that have long dominated criticism of this genre, including the issues of intention (of the poet and of the speaker), reception (by auditors and by readers), and context (both internal and external ...
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... simile, appears to be necessary to the exercise itself, as students labor to speak like Priam or Ulysses. While my readings of Tennyson's poems pay atten- tion to actual similes, I want here to make the broader claim that this figure of ...
... simile, appears to be necessary to the exercise itself, as students labor to speak like Priam or Ulysses. While my readings of Tennyson's poems pay atten- tion to actual similes, I want here to make the broader claim that this figure of ...
Pagina 29
... simile has stated, “To understand the potential range of similes, the entire connective paradigm must be explored,” and thus similes could be understood to follow also from such connective phrases as “as one might,” “as though,” “as if ...
... simile has stated, “To understand the potential range of similes, the entire connective paradigm must be explored,” and thus similes could be understood to follow also from such connective phrases as “as one might,” “as though,” “as if ...
Pagina 30
... simile concerning Achilles in motion, as a hero who “leapt on the foe as a lion,” with a metaphor, “the lion leapt.”41 Although Quintilian acknowledges the importance of the conjunctive terms “like” and “as,” the distinction is founded ...
... simile concerning Achilles in motion, as a hero who “leapt on the foe as a lion,” with a metaphor, “the lion leapt.”41 Although Quintilian acknowledges the importance of the conjunctive terms “like” and “as,” the distinction is founded ...
Inhoudsopgave
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UNREAL CITY VICTORIANS IN TROY | 121 |
THE RAPTURE OF THE SONGBUILT CITY | 205 |
Tennysons Apotheosis | 339 |
Notes | 351 |
Index | 385 |
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