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The Design of Biographia Literaria

The Design of Biographia Literaria

Hardcover

Series: Rle: Wordsworth and Coleridge, Book 10

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1138669970
ISBN13: 9781138669970
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 31 2016
Pages: 170
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

First published in 1983, this book examines a work whose intricacies have baffled and infuriated generations of readers and proposes a theory of Coleridge's writing habits that explain(s) his explanation. The author painstakingly analyses the Biographia's organising structure distinguishing between the daring conception and often inept execution of Coleridge's idea of critical discourse. It is argued that Coleridge's autobiographical format present a richly metaphorical self whose literary life has led to the now-famous doctrine of secondary imagination. The author's command of Coleridge scholarship will shed new light on the Biographia for specialists and non-specialists alike.

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