Shelley's Visual Imagination

Shelley's Visual Imagination
Author: Nancy Moore Goslee
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2011-06-23
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1107008387

First full-length study of Shelley's remarkable notebooks and the visual and textual imagination they reveal.

The Theatre of Shelley

The Theatre of Shelley
Author: Jacqueline Mulhallen
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2010
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1906924309

Based on the author's thesis (Ph.D., Anglia Ruskin University).

Shelley's Living Artistry

Shelley's Living Artistry
Author: Madeleine Callaghan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2017
Genre: History
ISBN: 1786940248

This study of the poetry and drama of Percy Bysshe Shelley reads the letters and their biographical contexts to shed light on the poetry, tracing the ambiguous and shifting relationship between the poet's art and life. For Shelley, both life and art are transfigured by their relationship with one another where the 'poet participates in the eternal, the infinite, and the one' but is equally bound up with and formed by the society in which he lives and the past that he inherits. Callaghan shows that the distinctiveness of Shelley's work comes to rest on its wrong-footing of any neat division of life and art. The dazzling intensity of Shelley's poetry and drama lies in its refusal to separate the twain as Shelley explores and finally explodes the boundaries between what is personal and what is poetic. Arguing that the critic, like the artist, cannot ignore the conditions of the poet's life, Callaghan reveals how Shelley's artistry reconfigures and redraws the actual in his poetry. The book shows how Shelley's poetic daring lies in troubling the distinction between poetry as aesthetic work hermetically sealed against life, and poetry as a record of the emotional life of the poet.

The Oxford Handbook of Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Oxford Handbook of Percy Bysshe Shelley
Author: Madeleine Callaghan
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 734
Release: 2013
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199558361

The book is an authoritative and up-to-date collection of original essays on one of the greatest of all English poets, Percy Bysshe Shelley. It covers a wide range of topics, exploring Shelley's life and work from various angles.

Goethe's Faust I Outlined

Goethe's Faust I Outlined
Author: Evanghelia Stead
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 482
Release: 2023-07-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9004543015

In a new approach to Goethe's Faust I, Evanghelia Stead extensively discusses Moritz Retzsch's twenty-six outline prints (1816) and how their spin-offs made the unfathomable play available to larger reader communities through copying and extensive distribution circuits, including bespoke gifts. The images amply transformed as they travelled throughout Europe and overseas, revealing differences between countries and cultures but also their pliability and resilience whenever remediated. This interdisciplinary investigation evidences the importance of print culture throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in nations involved in competition and conflict. Retzsch's foundational set crucially engenders parody, and inspires the stage, literature, and three-dimensional objects, well beyond common perceptions of print culture's influence. This book is available in open access thanks to an Institut Universitaire de France (IUF) grant.