The Theory of Inspiration: Composition as a Crisis of Subjectivity in Romantic and Post-romantic Writing

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Manchester University Press, 2000 - 312 pages
Inspiration is a basic concept of western poetics, and deserves reassessment with all the tools of modern literary theory.
 

Contents

INTRODUCTION
1
the space of composition
15
archaic Greece and Platos Ion I
40
14
42
Enthusiasm and enlightenment
87
Power in Wordsworths The Prelude
92
Hölderlin and Schelling
115
Shelleys A Defence of Poetry
143
Nietzsche and H D
170
Surrealism inspiration and the mediations of chance in André Breton
191
the dispersal of inspiration?
222
inspiration in Blanchots The Space of Literature 1955
238
Derridas Che cosè la poesia? and Celans notion of the Atemwende
259
CONCLUSION
278
INDEX
295
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