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Robert Browning's romantic irony in The ring and the book / Patricia Diane Rigg.

Title: Robert Browning's romantic irony in The ring and the book / Patricia Diane Rigg.
Author: Rigg, Patricia, 1951-
Publication: Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c1999.

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Description

153 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

"This study is a reading of Robert Browning as an ironist in the tradition of the German Romanticist Friedrich Schlegel, who coined the term "Romantic irony." Specifically, Patricia Diane Rigg considers historicity or historical truth in Browning's The Ring and the Book by distinguishing between the processes of representation and re-presentation within the context of Romantic irony." "In the framing monologues, the Poet seems to blur the distinction between representing (embodying or symbolizing) and re-presenting (offering anew) the truth-telling process that shapes the narrative of the poem. Rigg's premise is twofold: first, Browning tells "a truth obliquely," deliberately using language to subvert truth and to reveal it simultaneously; second, truth is linked not to a fixed text but to authorial and reader production of that text. In the language of Romantic irony, The Ring and the Book is "organized chaos," revealing history in terms of "becoming" rather than "being" and revealing historical truth as process rather than as product."--Jacket.

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 136-150) and index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: Romanticism, Romantic Irony, Readers -- 1. The Outer Circle: The Poet -- 2. The Second Circle -- Pt. 1. The Roman Speakers -- Pt. 2. The Lawyers and The Venetian Visitor -- 3. The Middle Circle: The Pope and Fra Celestino -- 4. The Inner Circle: Guido and Caponsacchi -- 5. The Epicenter: Pompilia.

ISBN

0838637736 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^98035806^

OCLC

39456033
SCSB-11541440

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library