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Tennyson and the Text

Tennyson and the Text

Joseph, Gerhard

Hardcover

Literary CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0521413907
ISBN13: 9780521413909
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Apr 9 1992
Pages: 294
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.81 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Gerhard Joseph's study takes its major theme from the weaving figure of The Lady of Shalott, which becomes a kind of parable for the author and his texts. Taking its derivation from the Latin, texere, to weave, Professor Joseph's focus on poetic texture and a sense of textuality (both in Tennyson's individual works and the larger poetic tapestry of his oeuvre) leads also to a consciousness of his own critical and interpretative weaving, bringing out a new pattern in the fabric of Tennyson's work. This brings together a theory of perception with an analysis of the gendering of Tennyson's characters, and engages with the methodologies of deconstruction, psychoanalysis, and gender theory. The weaving metaphor is used to open up a key theoretical question regarding Tennyson's poetics and the relationship of authorial intention to the unseen hand of an all-pervasive textuality.

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