Byron and the Baroque

Byron and the Baroque

by Modrzewska, Miroslawa

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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 previ…

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  • Full title :Byron and the Baroque / Miroslawa Modrzewska.

Summary

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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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2013.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Peter Lang
  • Place of Publication:Frankfurt
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2013.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (174 pages) : : portrait

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9783653028386, 3653028388, 9783653028386, 1299549861, 9781299549869, 3631631316, 9783631631317
  • oclc:ocn846954095
  • LC Classification:PR4392.G62
  • Dewey Decimal:821.7

Table of Contents

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.

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Subjects

Byron, George Gordon Byron,, Baron Criticism, interpretation, etc LITERARY CRITICISM -- European LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Wel… Romanticism -- Baroque influences

Writers

Modrzewska, Miroslawa

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