Coleridge and Textual Instability: The Multiple Versions of the Major PoemsOxford University Press, 1994 - 255 Seiten Textual pluralism holds that there can exist more than one authoritative version of a literary work, and that only by viewing the collective versions can the constitution of a work be seen. In Coleridge and Textual Instability, Jack Stillinger establishes and documents the existence of numerous different authoritative versions of Coleridge's best-known poems: sixteen or more of The Eolian Harp, for example, eighteen of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and comparable numbers for This Lime-Tree Bower, Frost at Midnight, Kubla Khan, Christabel, and Dejection: An Ode. Such multiplicity of versions raises interesting theoretical and practical questions about the make-up of the Coleridge canon, the ontological identity of any specific work in the canon, the editorial treatment of Coleridge's works, and the ways in which multiple versions complicate interpretation of the poems as a unified (or, as the case may be, disunified) body of work. Providing much new information about the texts and production of Coleridge's major poems, Stillinger's study offers intriguing new theories about the nature of authorship and the composition of literary works. |
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The Current State of Coleridges Poetic Texts | 3 |
2 The Multiple Versions | 26 |
3 Coleridge as Reviser | 100 |
4 A Practical Theory of Versions | 118 |
Notes | 237 |
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Coleridge and Textual Instability: The Multiple Versions of the Major Poems Jack Stillinger Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1994 |
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Ancient Mariner annotated copies Annual Anthology authorial intention beginning Biographia Literaria Blank Verse breeze canceled Charles Lamb Christabel Cole Coleridge's Coleridge's poems copies of 1817 corrected Cottle Dejection deleted Dorothy Wordsworth Dove Cottage draft earlier edition Eolian Harp errata essay extant eyes final text Frost at Midnight Geraldine Grasmere Harvard holograph interlined interpretation Keats Keats's Kubla Khan lady Lamb later letter Lime-Tree Bower lines literary Lyrical Ballads major poems manuscript Mariner's mind multiple versions paragraph division passage poet Poetical poetry printed text printer proofs prose published readers readings revisions S. T. Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge Sara separate versions Shillingsburg ship Sibylline Leaves Sir Leoline soul Southey speaker spirit stanza substantive sweet Textual Criticism thee theory things thou Tintern Abbey transcript unique unity University Press variants verse Version 9 volume William Wordsworth words Wordsworth written wrote