Tennyson and the Text: The Weaver's Shuttle - Couverture rigide

Joseph, Gerhard

 
9780521413909: Tennyson and the Text: The Weaver's Shuttle
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0521413907 ISBN 13 : 9780521413909
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1992

Synopsis

This 1992 study of Tennyson evolves its themes from the weaving figure of The Lady of Shalott, which becomes a kind of parable for the author and his texts. Taking its derivation from the Latin texere, 'to weave', Professor Joseph's focus on poetic texture and a sense of textuality leads to a consciousness of his own critical and interpretative weaving, while revealing a pattern in the fabric of Tennyson's work. This procedure brings together a theory of perception, developed in the first part of this study, with an analysis of the gendering of Tennyson's characters in the second part, and engages with the methodologies of deconstruction, psychoanalysis, and gender theory. The weaving metaphor also opens up a key theoretical issue regarding Tennyson's poetics: is the textual shuttle managed by the controlling hand of a historically definable author, or is the poetic weaver 'cursed' like the Lady of Shalott to suffer a mystifying doom at the 'unseen hand' of an all-pervasive textuality that occludes authorial intention?

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This 1992 study of Tennyson evolves its themes from the weaving figure of The Lady of Shalott, which becomes a kind of parable for the author and his texts. Taking its derivation from the Latin texere, 'to weave', Professor Joseph's focus on poetic texture and a sense of textuality leads to a consciousness of his own critical and interpretative weaving, while revealing a pattern in the fabric of Tennyson's work. This procedure brings together a theory of perception, developed in the first part of this study, with an analysis of the gendering of Tennyson's characters in the second part, and engages with the methodologies of deconstruction, psychoanalysis, and gender theory. The weaving metaphor also opens up a key theoretical issue regarding Tennyson's poetics: is the textual shuttle managed by the controlling hand of a historically definable author, or is the poetic weaver 'cursed' like the Lady of Shalott to suffer a mystifying doom at the 'unseen hand' of an all-pervasive textuality that occludes authorial intention?

Revue de presse

"An outstanding work by a distinguished expert on Tennyson's work and intellectual milieu." J. Hillis Miller

"A sophisticated exercise in the possibilities of reading, an ambitious utterance by a major figure in Victorian studies." Alan Sinfield

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
1992
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0521413907
ISBN 13 
9780521413909
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
294
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Personne responsable
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9780521019699: Tennyson and the Text: The Weaver's Shuttle

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0521019699 ISBN 13 :  9780521019699
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2008
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