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The Current of Romantic Passion
Jeffrey Robinson
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Description for The Current of Romantic Passion
Paperback. Probing the ambivalence of Romantic writers on the subjects of "passion" and "beauty", the author shows how this ambivalence is also central to the experience of the modern critic in Western society. In doing so, he also explores the problematic place of passion and beauty in Romantic radicalism. Num Pages: 214 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 304.
Deftly probing the ambivalence of Romantic writers on the subjects of 'passion' and 'beauty,' Robinson shows how this ambivalence is also central to the experience of the modern critic in Western society. Is the reader's experience of beauty in art an escape from troubling reality? Or does desire for beauty spur social criticism and reform? Does the representation of erotic passion, as a sign of social critique, exist to be transcended for disinterested spirituality? Or is such passion the very site of the struggle for individual and class rights? Robinson explores the problematic place of passion and beauty in ... Read more
Deftly probing the ambivalence of Romantic writers on the subjects of 'passion' and 'beauty,' Robinson shows how this ambivalence is also central to the experience of the modern critic in Western society. Is the reader's experience of beauty in art an escape from troubling reality? Or does desire for beauty spur social criticism and reform? Does the representation of erotic passion, as a sign of social critique, exist to be transcended for disinterested spirituality? Or is such passion the very site of the struggle for individual and class rights? Robinson explores the problematic place of passion and beauty in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
214
Place of Publication
Wisconsin, United States
ISBN
9780299129644
SKU
V9780299129644
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About Jeffrey Robinson
Jeffrey C. Robinson is professor of English at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is the author of Radical Literary Education, also published by the University of Wisconsin Press, and of The Walk: Notes on a Romantic Image. He is the editor of Keats: The Myth of the Hero by Dorothy Van Ghent.
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