The triumph of Romanticism ; collected essays.

Author/creator Peckham, Morse
Format Book
Edition[1st ed.].
Publication InfoColumbia : University of South Carolina Press, [1970]
Descriptionv, 462 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects

Contents Toward a theory of Romanticism.--Toward a theory of Romanticism: II, reconsiderations.--The dilemma of a century: the four stages of Romanticism.--Romanticism: the present state of theory.--The problem of the nineteenth century.--Constable and Wordsworth.--The place of architecture in nineteenth-century romantic culture.--Can Victorian have a useful meaning?--Hawthorne and Melville as European authors.--Darwinism and Darwinisticism.--Aestheticism to modernism: fulfillment or revolution?--What did Lady Windermere learn?--The current crisis in the arts: Pop, Op, and Mini.--Art and disorder.--Art and creativity: proposal for research.--Order and disorder in fiction.--Discontinuity in fiction: persona, narrator, scribe.--Literary interpretation as conventionalized verbal behavior.--Theory of criticism.--Is poetry self-expression?--Metaphor: a little plain speaking on a weary subject.--The intentional? fallacy?--On the historical interpretation of literature.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
LCCN 73120574
ISBN087249182X

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Joyner General Stacks PN603 .P4 1970 ✔ Available Place Hold