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Shelley's Broken World: Fractured Materiality and Intermitted Song
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Shortlisted for the University English Book Prize 2022
Shelley's Broken World
is a provocative and profound reassessment of Shelley's poetic art and thought.Bysshe Inigo Coffey returns to a peculiarity of Shelley's expressive repertoire first noticed by his Victorian readers and editors: his innovatory use of pauses, which registered as irregularities in ears untuned to his innovations. But his pauses are more than a quirk; various intermittences are at the centre of Shelley's artistry and his thought.
This book aims to transform the philosophical, scientific, and aesthetic contexts in which Shelley is positioned. It offers a ground-breaking analysis of his reading, and is the first study to refer to and include images of the unpublished 'Marlow List', a record of the books Shelley left behind him on his departure for Italy in 1818. Shelley's prosody grew to articulate his sense that actuality is experienced as ruptured and fractured with gaps and limit-points.He shows us
the weakness of the actual
. As we approach the bicentenary of the poet's death,
provides an exciting new beginning for the study of a major Romantic poet, the history of materialism, and prosody.
Shelley's Broken World
is a provocative and profound reassessment of Shelley's poetic art and thought.Bysshe Inigo Coffey returns to a peculiarity of Shelley's expressive repertoire first noticed by his Victorian readers and editors: his innovatory use of pauses, which registered as irregularities in ears untuned to his innovations. But his pauses are more than a quirk; various intermittences are at the centre of Shelley's artistry and his thought.
This book aims to transform the philosophical, scientific, and aesthetic contexts in which Shelley is positioned. It offers a ground-breaking analysis of his reading, and is the first study to refer to and include images of the unpublished 'Marlow List', a record of the books Shelley left behind him on his departure for Italy in 1818. Shelley's prosody grew to articulate his sense that actuality is experienced as ruptured and fractured with gaps and limit-points.He shows us
the weakness of the actual
. As we approach the bicentenary of the poet's death,
provides an exciting new beginning for the study of a major Romantic poet, the history of materialism, and prosody.
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