Reading The Eve of St.Agnes
The Multiples of Complex Literary Transaction
1st Edition
Published on 14. October 1999
199 pages
978-0-19-535150-7 (ISBN)
Description
Using the 180-year history of Keats'sEve of St. Agnes as a basis for theorizing about the reading process, Stillinger's book explores the nature and whereabouts of "meaning" in complex works. A proponent of authorial intent, Stillinger argues a theoretical compromise between author and reader, applying a theory of interpretive democracy that includes the endlessly multifarious reader's response as well as Keats's guessed-at intent. Stillinger also considers the process of constructing meaning, and posits an answer to why Keats's work is considered canonical, and why it is still being read and admired.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- ONE: Introduction: The Literary Transaction
- Author-Text-Reader: Where's the Meaning?
- The Complication of Multiples
- The Legitimacy of Audience
- TWO: The Starting Materials: Texts and Circumstances
- Composition, Revision, Publication of The Eve of St. Agnes
- The Textual Versions
- Keats's Comments on the Poem
- THREE: The Multiple Readings
- The Stories of the Poem
- The Three Bears and Single Meanings
- A Token Fifty-nine Interpretations
- FOUR: Why There Are So Many Meanings (I): Complex Readership
- Multiple Readers
- The Reading Process
- Keat's "Innumerable Compositions
- A Practical Theory of Multiple Interpretation
- Multiple Meanings and the Improvement of Reading
- FIVE: Why There Are So Many Meanings (II): Complex Authorship
- The Idea of Incongruity
- Multiple Keats
- The Keats Map
- SIX: Conclusion: Keats "among the English Poets
- The Origins of Canonicity
- Canonical Complexity
- The Union of Complex Authorship and Complex Readership
- Appendixes
- A. Text and Apparatus
- B. Fifty-nine Ways of Looking at The Eve of St. Agnes
- C. Paintings and Book Illustrations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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