The Poetics of Uncontrollability in Keats's Endymion: Language Theory and Romantic Periodicals (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781443805339)

Endymion is the trâit d'union between Keatsâ (TM)s juvenilia and his better known, and conventionally more mature, works. By its nature, it is a transitional work, and thus gives the scholar special insight into the development of Keatsâ (TM)s poetics and idiom. Moreover, Endymion is the Keatsian work which most rattled and provoked critics of its time.

This book reconstructs the linguistic context of the eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries in order to explain the reviewersâ (TM) unease with regard to Endymion. It shows that eighteenth-century prescriptivism arose from a deep-seated anxiety of language, Lockean in origin, and that the ensuing desire to stabilize and therefore control language informed Romantic criticism in general, and the criticism of Keatsâ (TM)s work in particular, more fundamentally than politics could or did. The imaginative and linguistic markers of Endymion are mapped and analysed in order to prove that Keats produced a â oepoetics of uncontrollability⠝, a series of textual and stylistic strategies, which violated linguistic and narrative standards, and which were, therefore, perceived as unsettling.

Author: Anna Anselmo
ISBN-10: 1443805335
ISBN-13: 9781443805339
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Language: English
Published: 01/25/2017
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.20h x 6.00w x 0.80d