
Against Finality
Inaugural Lecture, Delivered 4th February 1993
John Beer(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 16. December 1993
Book
Paperback/Softback
52 pages
978-0-521-45954-9 (ISBN)
Description
Since the rise of scientific thinking in the seventeenth century the role of the imagination in literature has been a matter for debate. Is it an essential resource, as maintained by some Romantic writers, or a treacherous purveyor of illusions? In this lecture Professor Beer suggests that one result of this uncertainty has been to set up a division (which continues to pervade literary enterprises) between imaginative flights on the one hand and the 'weighing of words' on the other. His examples are drawn from a wide range of writers, including Johnson and Dickens, Hopkins and Woolf. The lecture concludes with an examination of two poems by Wordsworth, who is seen as having faced these problems in an unusually intricate and subtle manner.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 3 mm
Weight
68 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-45954-9 (9780521459549)
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Person
Content
Inaugural lecture; Notes.