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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... romantic intoning [ s ] , " this superb vision of mutuality , unity , and love that harks back to the fluid , intermingling worlds and selves of another supreme fiction - maker , P. B. Shelley , whose sublimely egotistical command in ...
... romantic intoning [ s ] , " this superb vision of mutuality , unity , and love that harks back to the fluid , intermingling worlds and selves of another supreme fiction - maker , P. B. Shelley , whose sublimely egotistical command in ...
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... romantic brethren . Sexist as well as self - involved , the Shelley who emerged during the last decade or so often seems as blithely , and blindly , egotistical as Stevens's obnoxious sparrow . ' The debate over whether Shelley ...
... romantic brethren . Sexist as well as self - involved , the Shelley who emerged during the last decade or so often seems as blithely , and blindly , egotistical as Stevens's obnoxious sparrow . ' The debate over whether Shelley ...
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... romantic despondency and artistic fruition that comprised the poet's nineteenth year , we can see the seeds of his mature thoughts on Love's dominion and the Self's dark idolatry spring forth . And as we watch the " busy phantoms " of ...
... romantic despondency and artistic fruition that comprised the poet's nineteenth year , we can see the seeds of his mature thoughts on Love's dominion and the Self's dark idolatry spring forth . And as we watch the " busy phantoms " of ...
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... Romantic poetry , " The Romantic Mother , exemplifies the more recent trend in Shelley criticism : locate and denounce evidence of narcissism in the Shelley canon.2 The charge of narcissism , like that of sexism or racism , is often ...
... Romantic poetry , " The Romantic Mother , exemplifies the more recent trend in Shelley criticism : locate and denounce evidence of narcissism in the Shelley canon.2 The charge of narcissism , like that of sexism or racism , is often ...
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... romantic disappoint- ment into something of far greater impact on Shelley's theories of love and selfhood as well as on his actual relationships . Neither Shelley's " narcissism " nor his vehement anti - Christianity is the product of a ...
... romantic disappoint- ment into something of far greater impact on Shelley's theories of love and selfhood as well as on his actual relationships . Neither Shelley's " narcissism " nor his vehement anti - Christianity is the product of a ...
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