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Author Howe, Tony (Lecturer in English), author.

Title Byron and the forms of thought / Anthony Howe.

Publication Info. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (1 electronic resource (vii, 195 pages))
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Series Liverpool English texts and studies ; 61
Liverpool English texts and studies ; 61.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-189) and index.
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Contents Part 1. Philosophy. Essay I . 'I doubt if doubt itself be doubting' : scepticism, system and poetry -- Essay II. A 'voice from out the wilderness' : Cain and philosophical poetry -- Part 2. Poetics. Essay III. The need for 'all this' : Johnson, Bowles and the forms of prose -- Essay IV. 'I wish to do as much by Poesy' : amidst a Byronic poetics -- Part 3. Outlines. Essay V. The flower and the gem : narrative form and the traces of Eden -- Essay VI. 'Glory's dream unriddled' : politics and the forms of war.
Summary 'Byron and the Forms of Thought' is a major new study of Byron as a poet and thinker. While informed by recent work on Byron's philosophical contexts it sharply diverges from previous methodological assumptions to break new ground. Rather than attempting to re-describe Byron as a philosopher of a particular sort, the book draws attention to the ways in which Byron's poetry understands and explores its own 'philosophical' agency.
'Byron and the forms of thought' is a major new study of Byron as a poet and thinker. While informed by recent work on Byron's philosophical contexts, the book questions attempts to describe Byron as a philosopher of a particular kind. It approaches Byron, rather, as a writer fascinated by the different ways of thinking philosophy and poetry are taken to represent. After an Introduction that explores Byron's reception as a thinker, the book moves to a new reading of Byron's scepticism, arguing for a close proximity, in Byron's thought, between epistemology and poetics. This is explored through readings of Byron's efforts both as a philosophical poet and writer of critical prose. The conclusions reached form the basis of an extended reading of 'Don Juan' as a critical narrative that investigates connections between visionary and political consciousness. What emerges is a deeply thoughtful poet intrigued and exercised by the possibilities of literary form. -- Publisher's description.
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Language English.
Subject Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 -- Philosophy.
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824. Don Juan.
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824. Don Juan.
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 -- Philosophy.
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJjXpFkF6xktm3kbRYFVG3
Don Juan (Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron)
Poetics.
Poétique.
Literary studies: poetry and poets.
Literary studies: poetry & poets.
POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Philosophy
Poetics
Indexed Term Literature
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Byron and the forms of thought. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2013 9781846319716 (DLC) 2013474897
ISBN 1781385556 (electronic bk.)
9781781385555 (electronic bk.)
9781781380918 (electronic bk.)
1781380910 (electronic bk.)
9781846319716 (hbk.)
1846319714 (hbk.)
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CHVBK 556236246
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NLGGC 370456874

 
    
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