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  1. Byron and the Baroque
    Author: Modrzewska, Miroslawa
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Peter Lang, Frankfurt

    Byron's mannerist digressive style and his 'theatricality' are a method of literary and cultural discourse based on the concepts of irony, paradox and reflectivity that were practised in seventeenth-century literature and culture. This results in the... more

     

    Byron's mannerist digressive style and his 'theatricality' are a method of literary and cultural discourse based on the concepts of irony, paradox and reflectivity that were practised in seventeenth-century literature and culture. This results in the discursive split in the poetic language, which prefers to speak about the heavenly and the divine by reference to deformity and monstrosity. It is marked in a Romantic manner by the presence of the lyrical persona with a deep consciousness of previous literary texts based on the philosophy of this type of discourse, in which voices are echoed agai

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783653028386; 3653028388; 1299549861; 9781299549869; 3631631316; 9783631631317
    Series: Gdansk transatlantic studies in British and North American culture ; v. 1
    Subjects: Romanticism / Baroque influences; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; POETRY / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
    Other subjects: Byron, George Gordon Byron / Baron / 1788-1824 / Criticism and interpretation
    Scope: 1 online resource (174 pages :), portrait
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    Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1. Byron the Mannerist; Chapter 2. Theatre of Death: Byron's Eschatological Discourse; Chapter 3. Narratives of the Fall: Conceptual Plot Formation; Chapter 4. Stat Nominis Umbra: Latinization and the Role of theImplied Reader; Chapter 5. The Language of Nothingness: Monstrosity and theGrotesque; Chapter 6. Parody and Burlesque: Comicality as a Method ofLiterary Seduction; Chapter 7. Byron, Baroque and Romanticism; Concluding Note; Appendix; Bibliography