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The Supplement of Reading

Figures of Understanding in Romantic Theory and Practice

By: Tilottama Rajan

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The Supplement of Reading

Figures of Understanding in Romantic Theory and Practice

By: Tilottama Rajan

Tilottama Rajan illuminates a crisis of representation within romanticism, evident in the proliferation of stylistically and structurally unsettled literary texts that resist interpretation in terms of a unified meaning. The Supplement of Reading investigates the role of the reader both in romantic literary texts and in the hermeneutic theory that has responded to and generated such texts. Rajan considers how selected works by Coleridge, Wordsworth, Blake, Shelley, Godwin, and Wollstonecraft explore the problem of understanding in relation to interpretive difference, including the differences produced by gender, class, and history.

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Cornell University Press

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1501723154

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9781501723155

Deconstruction and the Remainders of Phenomenology

Sartre, Derrida, Foucault, Baudrillard

By: Tilottama Rajan

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Deconstruction and the Remainders of Phenomenology

Sartre, Derrida, Foucault, Baudrillard

By: Tilottama Rajan

This book disentangles two terms that were conflated in the initial Anglo-American appropriation of French theory: deconstruction and poststructuralism. Focusing on Sartre, Derrida, Foucault, and Baudrillard (but also considering Levinas, Blanchot, de Man, and others), it traces the turn from a deconstruction inflected by phenomenology to a poststructuralism formed by the rejection of models based on consciousness in favor of ones based on language and structure. The book provides a wide-ranging and complex genealogy of French theory from the 1940s onward, placing particular emphasis on the largely neglected early work of the theorists involved and on deconstruction's continuing relevance. The author argues that deconstruction is a form of radical, antiscientific modernity: an interdisciplinary reconfiguration of philosophy as it confronted the positivism of the human sciences in the 1960s. By contrast, poststructuralism is a type of postmodern theory inflected by changes in technology and the mode of information. Inasmuch as poststructuralism is founded upon its "constitutive loss" of phenomenology (in Judith Butler's phrase), the author is also concerned with the ways phenomenology (particularly Sartre's forgotten but seminal Being and Nothingness) is remembered, repeated in different ways, and never quite worked through in its theoretical successors. Thus the book also exemplifies a way of reading intellectual history that is not only concerned with the transmission of concepts, but also with the processes of transference, mourning, and disavowal that inform the relationships between bodies of thought.

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Stanford University Press

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0804745021

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9780804745024

The Supplement of Reading

Figures of Understanding in Romantic Theory and Practice

By: Tilottama Rajan

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Figures of Understanding in Romantic Theory and Practice

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Cornell University Press

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1501723146

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9781501723148

Romantic Narrative

Shelley, Hays, Godwin, Wollstonecraft

By: Tilottama Rajan

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Romantic Narrative

Shelley, Hays, Godwin, Wollstonecraft

By: Tilottama Rajan

Often identified with its lyric poetry, Romanticism has come to be dismissed by historicists as an ineffectual idealism. By focusing on Romantic narrative, noted humanist Tilottama Rajan takes issue with this identification, as well as with the equation of narrative itself with the governmental apparatus of the Novel. Exploring the role of narrativity in the works of Romantic writers, Rajan also reflects on larger disciplinary issues such as the role of poetry versus prose in an emergent modernity and the place of Romanticism itself in a Victorianized nineteenth century. While engaging both genres, Romantic Narrative responds to the current critical shift from poetry to prose by concentrating, paradoxically, on a poetics of narrative in Romantic prose fiction. Rajan argues that poiesis, as a mode of thinking, is Romanticism’s legacy to an age of prose. She elucidates this thesis through careful readings of Shelley’s Alastor and his Gothic novels, Godwin’s Caleb Williams and St. Leon, Hays’ Memoirs of Emma Courtney, and Wollstonecraft’s The Wrongs of Woman. Rajan, winner of the Keats-Shelley Association's Distinguished Lifetime Award and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, is one of Romanticism’s leading scholars. Effective, articulate, and readable, Romantic Narrative will appeal to scholars in both nineteenth-century studies and narrative theory.

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JHU Press

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0801899214

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9780801899218

Romantic Narrative

Shelley, Hays, Godwin, Wollstonecraft

By: Tilottama Rajan

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Shelley, Hays, Godwin, Wollstonecraft

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The Supplement of Reading

The Supplement of Reading

Deconstruction and the Remainders of Phenomenology

Deconstruction and the Remainders of Phenomenology

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Romantic Narrative

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