Garber Self, Text, and Romantic Irony

The Example of Byron
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-5936-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 340 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

Frederick Garber takes up in detail several problems of the self broached in his previous book, The Autonomy of the Self from Richardson to Huysmans (Princeton, 1982). Using patterns in Byron's canon as models, he focuses on the relations of self-making and text-making as a central Romantic issue. For Byron and many of his contemporaries, putting a text into the world meant putting a self there along with it, and it also meant that the difficulties of establishing the one inevitably reflect the parallel difficulties in the other.

Professor Garber discusses some of Byron's key texts and shows how their development leads to an impasse involving both self and text. Byron's way out of these dilemmas was the mode of Romantic irony, of which he is one of the greatest exemplars. The study then moves into broader areas of Anglo-European literature, its ultimate purpose being to argue not only for the efficacy of such irony but for its position as something more than a mere alternative to Romantic organicism.

Originally published in 1988.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Garber, Frederick

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

FrontMatter, pg. i
Contents, pg. vii
Preface, pg. ix
A Note òn Texts, pg. xiii
Acknowledgments, pg. xv
I. Beginning Harold, pg. 3
2. Self-Consuming Symmetries, pg. 32
3. An Oriental Twist, pg. 69
4. Continuing Manfred, pg. 102
5. Lucid Contours, pg. 139
6. Irony and Organicism: Mind, Memory, and Place, pg. 171
7. Irony and Organicism: Origin and Textuality, pg. 194
8. Irony and Organicism: Figures of Relation, pg. 224
9. Self and the Language of Satire, pg. 269
10. Satire and the Making of Selves, pg. 291
Select Bibliography, pg. 313
Index, pg. 319