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Romanticism

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Oscillations Of Romantic Irony : Percy B. Shelley's "Defence Of Poetry" And Friedrich Schlegel's Model Of Understanding, Sabine H. Seiler Jan 2013

Oscillations Of Romantic Irony : Percy B. Shelley's "Defence Of Poetry" And Friedrich Schlegel's Model Of Understanding, Sabine H. Seiler

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

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The Multiplied Body : Romanticism's Imaginary Subject, Dana M. Balejko Jan 2013

The Multiplied Body : Romanticism's Imaginary Subject, Dana M. Balejko

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

“The Multiplied Body: Romanticism's Imaginary Subject” develops a new understanding of the Romantic subject as one that fundamentally disrupts the formation of the poetic “I” in its demonstration that through the “awful power” of the imagination the Romantic body is always, already multiplied. The texts analyzed (both Romantic and contemporary) recognize the “constitutive” social and historical fallacies surrounding definitions of the “natural” human. This project's development of an imagined multiple body denotes a refutation of humanistic theories about embodied existence. Ultimately, through an analysis of poetry by Wordsworth, Keats, and Shelley (among others), “The Multiplied Body” reveals alternative ontological strategies …