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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... figures emerged from this emo- tional crisis and its aftermath , figures that would play prominent roles both in the ... figure in Shelley's psychic and evangelistic battle against tyrannous Self : the " love - devoted " martyr ( Shelley ...
... figures emerged from this emo- tional crisis and its aftermath , figures that would play prominent roles both in the ... figure in Shelley's psychic and evangelistic battle against tyrannous Self : the " love - devoted " martyr ( Shelley ...
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... figure to the aspiring , developing self ( " Narcissism and Narcissistic Rage " 364 ) . From the Shelleyan martyr , who at least claims to be Love- rather than Self - devoted , we turn to a more straightforward incarnation of Selfhood ...
... figure to the aspiring , developing self ( " Narcissism and Narcissistic Rage " 364 ) . From the Shelleyan martyr , who at least claims to be Love- rather than Self - devoted , we turn to a more straightforward incarnation of Selfhood ...
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... figure of the dark double , whose initial fascination for the poet coincided with his impending and then his actual loss of Harriet ( and of Elizabeth ) . Like Blake , Shelley knew the temptations and dangers of becoming a " self ...
... figure of the dark double , whose initial fascination for the poet coincided with his impending and then his actual loss of Harriet ( and of Elizabeth ) . Like Blake , Shelley knew the temptations and dangers of becoming a " self ...
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... figure in scriptural texts , came into sharp focus during the eighteenth- and nineteenth - century " feminization of ... figures help Shelley's heroes to defuse ( their own ) masculine , Self - serv- ing impulses and , most important ...
... figure in scriptural texts , came into sharp focus during the eighteenth- and nineteenth - century " feminization of ... figures help Shelley's heroes to defuse ( their own ) masculine , Self - serv- ing impulses and , most important ...
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... 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 - virtues , including compassion , selflessness , and , of ...
... 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 - virtues , including compassion , selflessness , and , of ...
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