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Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. ERUDITE: ELUCIDATING: NEW: full-clothbound hardcover, silk-finish navy blue linen on boards, IMPECCABLE exterior, PRISTINE interior, 0.72 kg, 5.62" x 8.6", 441 pp. A collection of remarkably erudite and elucidating interrelated essays by a leading Yale scholar and critic and a foremost Germanist of our time. Topics broadly include Modern and 19th Century Poetry, Poetics, Romanticism, Hermeneutics, History and Criticism, Literary Theory. The distinct and interrelated essays included here are organized under the following chapter headings, which indicate the scope and richness, and the utility, of this volume . . . Chapter 1: The Limits of Interpretation; Chapter 2: The Negativity of Reading; Chapter 3: The Conscience of Narrative; Chapter 4: The Poetics of Self-Consciousness; Chapter 5: Reading the Romantic Ode; Chapter 6: The Temporality of Self-hood; Chapter 7: Platonic Dialogue and Romantic Irony; Chapter 8: Strategies of Reversal in Literary Narrative; Chapter 9: The Faults of Vision; a Dialogue on Identity and Poetry. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to international destinations at our posted rates. Seller Inventory # 009610