Shelley's Process: Radical Transference and the Development of His Major Works

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Oxford University Press, 1989 M01 12 - 432 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
A Philosophical View of Reform and Its Satellites
222
Thoughts Eternal Flight
263
Notes
343
Index
401
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