Shelley's Process: Radical Transference and the Development of His Major WorksOxford University Press, 1988 - 416 pages In this set of thorough and revisionary readings of Percy Bysshe Shelley's best-known writings in verse and prose, Hogle argues that the logic and style in all these works are governed by a movement in every thought, memory, image, or word-pattern whereby each is seen and sees itself in terms of a radically different form. For any specified entity or figure to be known for "what it is," it must be reconfigured by and in terms of another one at another level (which must then be dislocated itself). In so delineating Shelley's "process," Hogle reveals the revisionary procedure in the poet's various texts and demonstrates the powerful effects of "radical transference" in Shelley's visions of human possibility. |
Contents
Introduction The Logic of Transposition | 3 |
From the Gothic Sensibility to Natural Piety and Alastor | 28 |
The Hymn to Intellectual Beauty and Mont Blanc | 59 |
From Laon and Cythna to The Cenci | 87 |
Prometheus Unbound and Its Aftermath | 167 |
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