Items related to Coleridge, Shelley, and Transcendental Inquiry: Rhetoric,...
Synopsis
The English Romantic writers and poets valued a genuine coherence of image and idea. Striving for organic form, they were faced with the challenge of using figuration - metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche - to represent the essentially unrepresentable: God, ultimate power, the human mind and psyche, what Shelley called "the Deep Truth". More insistently than earlier writers, but in ways often veiled, the Romantics contributed to the rhetorical analysis of discourse. Now John A. Hodgson advances a theory of how the Romantics matched rhetoric to argument in their approaches to the transcendent. Hodgson begins with Samuel Coleridge, who demonstrates the relevance of rhetorical analysis to philosophical no less than to literary inquiry. Moving to Percy Shelley, whose "Defense of Poetry" celebrates the transcendental, he shows how that poet's different argument involves a rhetorical stance with different psychological implications. The discussion extends to Edmund Burke and Sigmund Freud, who supply a vocabulary and schema for distinguishing the modes of transcendental argument. "Coleridge, Shelley, and Transcendental Inquiry" offers new insights into English Romantic poetry and Freud's metapsychology - most notably in its analysis of Coleridge's theory of figuration, Shelley's rhetorical self-destructiveness, and Freud's ambivalent poise between poetry and philosophy. Reaching beyond Romanticism and beyond Freud, the book ends by integrating contemporary rhetorical, deconstructionist, and psychological approaches to literary theory.
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
Search results for Coleridge, Shelley, and Transcendental Inquiry: Rhetoric,...
Stock Image
Coleridge, Shelley, and Transcendental Inquiry: Rhetoric, Argument, Metapsychology
Published by
University of Nebraska Press, 1989
ISBN 10: 0803223498
ISBN 13: 9780803223493
Used
Hardcover
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Very good condition. Front jacket corners are chipped. Binding is tight. Inside is clean and unmarked. Seller Inventory # 1157956
Stock Image
Coleridge, Shelley, and Transcendental Inquiry: Rhetoric, Argument, Metapsychology
Published by
University of Nebraska Press, 1989
ISBN 10: 0803223498
ISBN 13: 9780803223493
Used
Hardcover
Seller: killarneybooks, Inagh, CLARE, Ireland
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Cloth hardcover, xvii + 155 pages. Ex-university library, stamped "discard"; an external stamp on the upper and lower page edges, a couple of labels on the boards, internal inventory and ownership markings. Pages are clean, bright, untanned, with unmarked text and firm binding. Gentle age-spotting affecting page edges externally. Sunned boards. Missing the dust jacket. -- Romantic thinkers wrestled with the problem of making language represent the unrepresentable - God, the psyche, ultimate truth - and this study explores how Coleridge and Shelley aligned rhetoric with argument in their attempts to articulate transcendence. -- The book begins with Coleridge's rhetorical theory, examining his privileging of symbol over allegory, his concept of "determined metaphor," and the tensions between rhetoric and philosophy in works such as The Statesman's Manual and Aids to Reflection. Burke's sublime and Freud's uncanny are brought in to clarify how figurative strategies shaped Coleridge's transcendental arguments. Turning to Shelley, the analysis investigates A Defence of Poetry alongside major poems (Queen Mab, Mont Blanc, Adonais, The Cenci, The Triumph of Life), showing how skeptical rhetoric consistently undermines transcendental claims in what Hodgson calls "rhetorical suicide." Freud's metapsychology, with its reality and pleasure principles, enables a comparative framework in which Coleridge's conservative, self?preserving approach and Shelley's regressive, self?destructive stance are mapped in a chiastic schema of Romantic transcendental inquiry. An afterword situates these findings within deconstruction, highlighting Romantic figuration as a precursor to modern arguments about truth, indeterminacy, and the limits of discourse. -- This study integrates close textual readings with psychoanalytic and deconstructionist frameworks, producing a systematic account of how Romantic language theorizes its own limits. The book endures as both an interpretive guide to Coleridge and Shelley's rhetoric and a transferable model for linking figural strategies to broader philosophical and psychological debates. -- Contents: Preface: Interrelationship of Rhetoric and Argument; 1. Rhetoric: Coleridge's Rhetoric of Allegory and Symbol; 2. Argument and the Rhetoric of Argument: Coleridge, Burke, and the Catenary Curve of Determined Metaphor [Determined Metaphor and Edmund Burke's Conception of a Sublime God; Determined Metaphor and the Rhetorical Structure of the Uncanny]; 3. Argument: Shelley's Defense against Poetry and the Freudian Schema of the Psyche [Ontology; Epistemology; Deception; Misdirection]; 4. Rhetoric and the Argument of Rhetoric: The Mistakes and Atonement of Shelley's Gloomy Passion; Afterword: Romantic Argument, Freud's Metapsychology, and the Deconstructionist Debate; Notes; Index. Seller Inventory # 013700
Buy Used
US$ 52.50
US$ 37.74 shipping
Ships from Ireland to U.S.A.
Ships from Ireland to U.S.A.
Quantity: 1 available