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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Seite vii
... : Loathsome Sympathy / Indomitable Selfhood 45 3. A Band of Sister - Spirits 79 4. Sex , Sympathy , and Science 125 5. The Unreserve of Mingled Being 167 Notes 197 Works Cited 295 Index 307 PREFACE In his essay " On Love , " Percy.
... : Loathsome Sympathy / Indomitable Selfhood 45 3. A Band of Sister - Spirits 79 4. Sex , Sympathy , and Science 125 5. The Unreserve of Mingled Being 167 Notes 197 Works Cited 295 Index 307 PREFACE In his essay " On Love , " Percy.
Seite ix
... Self- hood confining , contaminating , destructive - and Love - sympathetic , self - sacrificing , redemptive - was for ... Selfhood , glowing with sweetest sympathy . It was in the mirror of her eyes that Shelley hoped to see himself ...
... Self- hood confining , contaminating , destructive - and Love - sympathetic , self - sacrificing , redemptive - was for ... Selfhood , glowing with sweetest sympathy . It was in the mirror of her eyes that Shelley hoped to see himself ...
Seite 1
... selfhood become almost indistinguishable , when fellow and self , sister and brother become one in the way Shelley so often longed for them to do . As Harold Bloom , working with Martin Buber's model of I - Thou relation , points out ...
... selfhood become almost indistinguishable , when fellow and self , sister and brother become one in the way Shelley so often longed for them to do . As Harold Bloom , working with Martin Buber's model of I - Thou relation , points out ...
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... selfhood ( as partaking and as simply taking ) in reality form a kind of continuum that may prevent us — that is , both poet and reader - from distinguishing between gen- uinely sympathetic exchange and what Shelley calls in an early ...
... selfhood ( as partaking and as simply taking ) in reality form a kind of continuum that may prevent us — that is , both poet and reader - from distinguishing between gen- uinely sympathetic exchange and what Shelley calls in an early ...
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... Selfhood continued to captivate , even obsess him for the rest of his life . Influenced by the Christian tradition of self - denial and by moral philosophers such as Shaftesbury , Hutcheson , Hume , Smith , and Godwin , Shelley regarded ...
... Selfhood continued to captivate , even obsess him for the rest of his life . Influenced by the Christian tradition of self - denial and by moral philosophers such as Shaftesbury , Hutcheson , Hume , Smith , and Godwin , Shelley regarded ...
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