Coleridge and Textual Instability: The Multiple Versions of the Major Poems (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780195085839)

Jack Stillinger establishes and documents the existence of numerous different authoritative versions of Coleridge's best-known poems: sixteen or more of The Eolian Harp, for example, eighteen of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and comparable numbers for This Lime-Tree Bower, Frost at Midnight, Kubla Khan, Christabel, and Dejection: An Ode. Such multiplicity of versions raises interesting theoretical and practical questions about the constitution of the Coleridge canon, the ontological identity of any specific work in the canon, the editorial treatment of Coleridge's works, and the ways in which multiple versions complicate interpretation of the poems as a unified (or, as the case may be, disunified) body of work. Providing much new information about the texts and production of Coleridge's major poems, Stillinger's study offers intriguing new theories about the nature of authorship and the constitution of literary works.

Author: Jack Stillinger
ISBN-10: 0195085833
ISBN-13: 9780195085839
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 05/12/1994
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.31lbs
Size: 9.24h x 6.40w x 0.97d