Browning's Sordello and the Aesthetics of DifficultyEnglish Literary Studies, University of Victoria, 1987 - 147 Seiten Browning's Sordello has often been regarded as teh ultimate difficult poem, at least until its twentieth-century successors. It is also usually seen as an anomalous freak of literary history. Browning's early masterwork can be understood best, however, as a mature extension of the poetics of its time, as well as a late-Romantic attempt to write an epical work which must be read both willfully and imaginatively. |
Inhalt
Introduction | 9 |
Reading and the Aesthetics of Difficulty | 15 |
Audiences In and Audiences Out of Sordello | 40 |
The Past Is Hurled in Twain | 78 |
The Techniques of Difficulty | 97 |
EPILOGUE Pippa Passes | 122 |
Notes | 133 |
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