زبان حواس: دینامیک‌های حسی-ادراکی در آثار ووردزورث، کولریج، ثورو، ویتمن و دیکنسون

In this stimulating and original analysis of some of the most important nineteenth-century poems in English, Kerry McSweeney offers an alternative to non-referential and New Historicist critical methods. McSweeney discusses the sensory acuity that informed Wordsworth's, Coleridge's, Thoreau's, Whitman's, and Dickinson's finest achievements and then, when blunted by illness or age, contributed to an attenuation of their creative power. He supplies a "sensory profile" or sensory history for each author and through close readings shows how this profile affected their relationship to the external world and their powers of symbolic perception. Using perspectives gleaned from the poets themselves and an understanding of the physiological ground of perception, McSweeney establishes a compelling theoretical basis for his approach. In clear and elegant prose, he studies the physical basis for aesthetic plenitude - such as the sensory manifold of synaesthesia - not only in the Romantic writers mentioned above but also in two Victorian poets, Hopkins and Tennyson. "McSweeney discusses the sensory acuity that informs the finest achievements of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Thoreau, Whitman, and Dickinson and which, when blunted by illness or age, contributes to an attenuation of their creative power. He supplies a "sensory profile" or sensory history for each author and through close readings shows how this profile affected their relationship to the external world and their powers of symbolic perception."--Résumé de l'éditeur "McSweeney discusses the sensory acuity that informs the finest achievements of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Thoreau, Whitman, and Dickinson and which, when blunted by illness or age, contributes to an attenuation of their creative power. He supplies a "sensory profile" or sensory history for each author and through close readings shows how this profile affected their relationship to the external world and their powers of symbolic perception."--Jacket Contents Preface Note on Texts and Citations 1. Organic Sensibility 2. Symbolic Perception 3. Sublime or Mock Sublime? 4. Wordsworth's Mighty World of Eye and Ear 5. Coleridge's Blessed Interval 6. Thoreau: A Purely Sensuous Life 7. Whitman: The Feeling of Health 8. Dickinson: The Glimmering Frontier 9. Afterword: Two Victorian Seers Notes Works Cited Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T V W Z