Fragments

Цена 17.10 - 17.15 USD

EAN/UPC/ISBN Code 9781940625027

Брэнд Contra Mundum Press

Автор


Страниц 160

Год выпуска 2013

Featuring an extended introduction by scholar of British Romanticism, Alan Vardy, Fragments consists of Wordsworth"s philosophico-aesthetic prose fragment "The Sublime & the Beautiful" and "Hawkshead & the Ferry." While a fragmented text, unfinished, almost certainly abandoned by the author, the difficulties of the former text no longer appear fatal so much as evidence of Wordsworth"s rigorous struggle to come to terms not only with his own aesthetic experiences, but with the philosophical aesthetics of his epoch. What were once read as confusions may now be seen as productive of complex accounts of lived affective experiences. In critical terms, current aesthetic occupations have perhaps finally found Wordsworth"s text. By placing the prose fragment in a separate appendix, the original editors of Wordsworth"s Prose Works removed it from its actual place in The Unpublished Tour. New analysis of the manuscripts reveals that "The Sublime & the Beautiful" is actually part of the Tour....