Thinking Through Poetry: Field Reports on Romantic Lyric 1st Edition Marjorie Levinson

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• ISBN-10: 019253825X
• ISBN-13: 9780192538253
• Author: Marjorie Levinson

Thinking through Poetry: Field Reports on Romantic Lyric pursues two goals. The title signals the contribution to debates about reading. Do we think ‘through’ – ‘by means of’, ‘with’- poems, sympathetically elaborating their surfaces? Is this compatible with a second meaning: ‘thinking through’ poems to their end-solving a problem, getting to its root, its deep truth? Third, can we square these surface and depth readings with a speculative, philosophical criticism to which the poem carries us, where ‘through’ denotes a ‘going beyond?’ All three meanings of ‘through’ are in play throughout. The subtitle applies ‘field’ first to Romantic studies since the 1980s, a field that this project reflects upon from beginning to end.

Table contents:

1. Introduction: Crooked Lines and Moving Targets

Part 1. Theory: Materialism against Itself
2. The New Historicism: Back to the Future
3. Romantic Poetry: The State of the Art
4. Pre- and Post-Dialectical Materialism: Modeling Praxis Without Subjects and Objects
5. A Motion and a Spirit: Romancing Spinoza
6. What is New Formalism?

Part 2. Criticism: Field Theories of Form
7. Of Being Numerous
8. Notes and Queries on Names and Numbers
9. Parsing the Frost: The Growth of a Poet’s Sentence in “Frost at Midnight”
10. The Plain Sense of Things
11. Conclusion: Lyric-The Idea of this Invention

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