Shelley's Mirrors of Love: Narcissism, Sacrifice, and SororityState University of New York Press, 29.10.1998 - 311 Seiten Shelley's Mirrors of Love confronts the myths and realities of Shelleyan narcissism and discovers an artist fiercely engaged with problems of (gender) identity, self-idolatry, and the nature of love itself. Rather than capitulating to what he called "the principle of Self," Shelley obsessively explored its temptations, its dangers, and its antidotes. The book is largely psychobiographical in approach, working with the theories of Heinz Kohut and Jessica Benjamin, among others, as it closely analyzes Shelley's fiction, poetry, and letters. The book offers the most comprehensive analysis to date of the poet's fluid gender identity, finding strong evidence of an "imaginative transsexualism" that allowed him to identify with real and imagined "sister-spirits" who exemplified the powers of love and sympathy, the greatest of Shelleyan ideals. The latter force receives particular attention as the study turns to scientific theories of Shelley's day, theories that helped the poet envision how the energy of electricity, sympathy, and sexuality converge to create the kind of erotically interpenetrating universe we see at the close of Prometheus Unbound. |
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... final expul- sion from his Eden reveal how essential , even primal the battle between Self- hood confining , contaminating , destructive - and Love - sympathetic , self - sacrificing , redemptive - was for the poet . Communion with a ...
... final expul- sion from his Eden reveal how essential , even primal the battle between Self- hood confining , contaminating , destructive - and Love - sympathetic , self - sacrificing , redemptive - was for the poet . Communion with a ...
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... final hectic weeks of the project . The advice and insights of Kathleen Lundeen , Anthony Harding , Beth Lau , and Victoria Myers have also found their way into the book . I could not have asked for a more attentive , sensitive , and ...
... final hectic weeks of the project . The advice and insights of Kathleen Lundeen , Anthony Harding , Beth Lau , and Victoria Myers have also found their way into the book . I could not have asked for a more attentive , sensitive , and ...
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... final break with him , it was from the wreck of his first love affair that Shelley first struggled to create a doctrine of love that absolutely precludes egocentrism . He also began at this time to fashion — or , rather , to attempt to ...
... final break with him , it was from the wreck of his first love affair that Shelley first struggled to create a doctrine of love that absolutely precludes egocentrism . He also began at this time to fashion — or , rather , to attempt to ...
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... final two chapters , which explore what Shelley calls in his 1816 poem " The Sunset " " the unreserve of mingled being " ( PS , I , 511 ) . For Shelley , mingled being was the ultimate com- munion between self and other ; it was a ...
... final two chapters , which explore what Shelley calls in his 1816 poem " The Sunset " " the unreserve of mingled being " ( PS , I , 511 ) . For Shelley , mingled being was the ultimate com- munion between self and other ; it was a ...
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... final chapters then move through three of Shelley's passionate attachments - to Harriet Grove , to Harriet Westbrook , and to Mary Godwin - as they explore how Shelleyan sex and sympathy pulse through various texts that clustered around ...
... final chapters then move through three of Shelley's passionate attachments - to Harriet Grove , to Harriet Westbrook , and to Mary Godwin - as they explore how Shelleyan sex and sympathy pulse through various texts that clustered around ...
Inhalt
11 | |
Loathsome SympathyIndomitable | 45 |
A Band of SisterSpirits | 79 |
Sex Sympathy and Science | 125 |
The Unreserve of Mingled Being | 167 |
Notes | 197 |
Works Cited | 295 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Ahasuerus Alastor Asia beautiful become beloved Cameron Canto Cenci Christ cousin Crook and Guiton crucial death Demogorgon desire Doppelgänger double dream Earth electricity Elizabeth Hitchener embody Epipsychidion Epithalamium erotic Esdaile essay female feminine feminized Field Place figure final Gelpi gender Gothic Gothic novel Harriet Grove Harriet Westbrook hero Hogg's Ianthe ideal illuminates imaginatively Irvyne Jesus Julia Jupiter kind Kohut Laon and Cythna Laon's letter to Hogg ley's linked lover lyric male martyr Mary Godwin Mary Shelley masculine maternal Matilda mingled mirror mother narcissism narcissistic Notopoulos novel Oceanides Othman Pandemian Panthea Paradise passage passion Percy Percy's poem poem's poet poet's Prometheus Unbound protagonist Queen Mab role romantic Selfhood selfishness selfless selfobject sense sexual Shel Shelley's Goddess Shelley's Major Verse Shelleyan sister sister-spirit sisterly soul Sperry spirit suggests sympathetic Syon House Ulmer Uranian Verezzi vision Wandering Jew writes Young Shelley Zastrozzi