书目名称 | Wordsworth and the Figurings of the Real | 编辑 | David Simpson | 视频video | | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | Perhaps the most powerful feature of the Romantic imagination is its ability to dissolve existing form and order and create it anew. The Romantic investigation of the functions of the imagination also leads to important insights concerning its problems and dangers. Because it separates the person experiencing it from others around him, the imagination introduces ways of seeing which cannot be assumed to be simply communicable or easily shared, and which have as their objects different forms or ‘things‘. These forms, or figures, risk becoming for their originators both vehicles of power, in so far as they do convince others of their reality, and limiting constructs of prefigured order, inhibiting their users from the perception of new relations and alternative meanings. When the figured becomes the real, there thus arise difficulties in both individual and social perceptions. Arguing from the stance that all perception takes place by a creative (and hence potentially divisive) assembly of images or qualities into things, David Simpson shows that the analysis of figurative representation in Wordsworth‘s writing is of central importance to his idea of the human mind, and the way in wh | 出版日期 | Book 1982 | 关键词 | England; poet; poetry; Wordsworth | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05778-8 | isbn_softcover | 978-1-349-05780-1 | isbn_ebook | 978-1-349-05778-8 | copyright | David E. Simpson 1982 |
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