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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... Death at the name of self , " attempts to bid " adieu to ego- tism , " the spectre of ( his own ) Selfhood continued to captivate , even obsess him for the rest of his life . Influenced by the Christian tradition of self - denial and by ...
... Death at the name of self , " attempts to bid " adieu to ego- tism , " the spectre of ( his own ) Selfhood continued to captivate , even obsess him for the rest of his life . Influenced by the Christian tradition of self - denial and by ...
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... death , ' as Rank says . " He then con- tinues : Such ideas , however , have sprung from the soil of unbounded self - love , from the primary narcissism which dominates the mind of the child and of primitive man . But when this stage ...
... death , ' as Rank says . " He then con- tinues : Such ideas , however , have sprung from the soil of unbounded self - love , from the primary narcissism which dominates the mind of the child and of primitive man . But when this stage ...
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... forces ) the poet into the sometimes muddied " streams of sympathy , " the idealized second self lures him , and his heroes , away from Self and toward Love and sympathy in quite a different way ( Prose 233 : On the Death 8 Introduction.
... forces ) the poet into the sometimes muddied " streams of sympathy , " the idealized second self lures him , and his heroes , away from Self and toward Love and sympathy in quite a different way ( Prose 233 : On the Death 8 Introduction.
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... Death of Princess Charlotte ) . Ostensibly a shadow figure or flattering mirror , the Shelleyan sister - spirit in fact teaches her mate to overcome masculine Self - possession and to reflect her own fem- inine - and Christlike ...
... Death of Princess Charlotte ) . Ostensibly a shadow figure or flattering mirror , the Shelleyan sister - spirit in fact teaches her mate to overcome masculine Self - possession and to reflect her own fem- inine - and Christlike ...
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... Death " ( 1810 ) and particularly The Wandering Jew ( 1810 ) , though written before the final break with Harriet early in 1811,10 evince an increasing fascination with and hostility toward the person of Christ , whom Shelley will ...
... Death " ( 1810 ) and particularly The Wandering Jew ( 1810 ) , though written before the final break with Harriet early in 1811,10 evince an increasing fascination with and hostility toward the person of Christ , whom Shelley will ...
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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Shelley's Mirrors of Love: Narcissism, Sacrifice, and Sorority Teddi Lynn Chichester,Teddi Chichester Bonca Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1999 |
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