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The uncreating word; romanticism and the object.

Title: The uncreating word; romanticism and the object.
Author: Massey, Irving.
Publication: Bloomington, Indiana University Press [1970]

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Description

136 pages; 25 cm

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

1. Introduction -- Words and things revisited -- Relevance of L'Etranger -- Words and experience -- Criticism and the arts -- Impulse and conclusion -- 2. Subject and object in romantic fiction -- Materialist psychology and literature -- Don Quixote and L'Etranger -- A sentimental journey -- The sorrows of Werther -- Subject and object: the middle way -- E.T.A. Hoffmann -- Stello -- L'Etranger and After -- 3. The descriptive style: Chateaubriand, Rousseau, Camus -- Chateaubriand -- A digression on landscape -- Rousseau -- L'Etranger -- Chateaubriand (conclusion) -- 4. An end to innocence -- Schiller: the dilemma of experience -- Undine -- de Sade, Diderot, Nietzsche -- Kafka, Heidegger, Sartre -- L'Etranger -- 5. The uncreating word -- The Dunciad and Chaos -- Rimbaud and Raymond Roussel -- Hopkins -- Pre-Lapsarian journalism, Howells, Scribner's sporting stories -- Wordsworth and Robbe-Grillet -- Toward a reconciliation.

ISBN

0253189934
9780253189936

LCCN

77126213
SBRT1730317

OCLC

ocm00103496
103496
SCSB-142870

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library