
Cover -- Wordsworth's Unremembered Pleasure -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Preface -- Contents -- List Of Abbreviations -- Introductionwords: Worth After Freud -- Wordsworth Contra Psychoanalysis -- Father Of The Man -- Terminologies -- Temporalities -- 1: Unremembered Pleasure -- Beyond Memory -- Unremembered Acts -- World Enough -- Return Of The Gift -- 2: The Infancy Of Affection -- The World Which I Had Been -- The Progress Of Our Being -- Two Origins -- Something That Is Gone -- 3: Metrical Pleasures -- Real Pleasure -- Some Versions Of Pleasure -- A Complex Feeling Of Delight The Ends Of Pleasure -- Retrospective Thoughts -- 4: Sustaining Elegy -- Elegiac Displacement -- Mourning Theory -- Unfeeling Armour -- Native Hills -- 5: Happiness In Time -- Lodged In Memory -- Ebbing Time -- Happiness, In Theory -- Communion Repeated -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index Alexander Freer. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Electronic Reproduction. Oxford Available Via World Wide Web.
This work investigates the intersection of William Wordsworth’s poetic theory and psychoanalytic concepts, specifically focusing on the role of 'unremembered pleasure' in his creative process. Alexander Freer examines how Wordsworth’s engagement with memory, infancy, and temporal experience challenges traditional psychoanalytic interpretations of his work. By analyzing the poet's own terminology against modern theoretical frameworks, the author argues for a more nuanced understanding of how Wordsworth conceptualized the relationship between past experience and poetic production.
What You Will Find
Scope Limits
Scholars and students of Romantic literature frequently note the academic density of the prose and the rigorous theoretical approach applied to the poetry. Experts highlight this as a specialized text that offers a sophisticated critique of how psychoanalysis interacts with canonical Romantic texts.
Page Count:
224
Publication Date:
2020-01-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press,
ISBN-10:
0192599038
ISBN-13:
9780192599032
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