Shelley's Process
Radical Transference and the Development of His Major Works
1st Edition
Published on 12. January 1989
433 pages
978-0-19-536371-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction. The Logic of Transposition
- The Mysteries in Shelley
- The Dominant Critical Response
- The Actual Provenance of Shelley's Writing
- Naming the Subliminal Impulse
- Some Affiliated Approaches and Where They Stop
- The Argument That Transference Demands
- 1. Early Attachments: From the "Gothic Sensibility" to "Natural Piety" and Alastor
- A Quest for Substitutes
- The Gothic Dichotomy and the Deistic Answer
- From "Power" to "Necessity
- The Problem of Wordsworth and Coleridge: Attraction and Repulsion
- The Hidden Imperative in All These Systems
- Facing the Impulse and Its Possibilities: Alastor
- Shelley at His Point of Departure
- 2. The Poles of Being and the Surpassing of Precursors: The "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty" and "Mont Blanc
- New Versions of Old Quandaries
- Building a Hymn from Dislocations
- The Outward Turn of Beauty's Power
- Mont Blanc": The Primal Clinaman
- A Doubtful Belief: Its Rationale and Style
- Beyond Polarity
- 3. The Key to All Tyrannies: From Laon and Cythna to The Cenci
- Transference's Self-Reversal
- The Existing Accounts of the Error
- Narcissism and the Gaze of the Other in Laon and Cythna
- The Will to Knowledge and the Feminist Critique in Prometheus Unbound
- The "Madness" of Objectification: Julian and Maddalo Through the Lenses of "On Life
- Mimetic Desire and Its Various Dangers: Julian and Maddalo, The Mask of Anarchy, and Peter Bell the Third
- The Modes Combined: The Cenci as Shelley's Great Exposé
- The Process of Abjection
- 4. Unchaining Mythography: Prometheus Unbound and Its Aftermath
- The Anti-Mythologist
- Prometheus as Transference: What Confines and Liberates Him
- The Nature, Education, and Re-Mobilization of Asia
- Transference Unbound in Acts 3 and 4: The Shelleyan Hope and Techniques for Projecting It
- The Reemergent Intertext and the Mythographic Lyrics
- Free Mythography in Action: "The Witch of Atlas
- The Social Role of Shelley's Anti-Myth
- 5. The Distribution of Transference: A Philosophical View of Reform and Its Satellites
- The Crisis of Shelley's Moment and His Gradualist Solution
- The Real Function of Equalization
- The Realienation of Work-And the Limits of Shelley's Proto-Marxism
- How the Language of Legality Can Free People from the Law
- The Unbinding of the Political Association
- Transference Made Practical: The View as an Epitome of Shelley's Career
- 6. The "One" in the Later Works: "Thought's Eternal Flight
- A Late Reorientation?
- The Translations as Recoveries of the Repressed
- The One as Progressive Conflation: "On Life" and the Defense of Poetry
- The One as a Fusion of Opposites: Epipsychidion
- The One as Another Plane: "The Sensitive-Plant" and Hellas
- The One as the Image of Death: Adonais
- Adonais as the Confluence of Two "Eternal Flights
- The One as Its Different Forms in Tandem and as a Poser of Questions: The Triumph of Life
- Notes
- Index
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