Rivermen: A Romantic Iconography of the River and the SourceMcGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 1 de set. de 1989 - 232 páginas Rivermen examines the mythic context and psychological dimensions of the river and its source through an investigation of the recurring motifs associated with the source in classical and English literature -the heroic quest, the river journey, and the naiad or muse. Frederic Colwell focuses on the writings of those redoubtable rivermen, the English Romantic poets. He explores poems by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, and Shelley, showing that the image of the river is used in their work as a compelling archetype and a metaphor for the nature and process of the creative impulse. From the preface: "Unlike the rhythms of oceans, rivers have direction and a purposive flow. The river's will is always its own, not laid down by man, for whom the river passage demands a surrender to its will, its currents and eddies. To move with the flow is to course with time and change; to stand astride or view it from a height offers the prophetic stance by which we contemplate its entire passage, its past, present, and the brightening waters or rippling shoals ahead." |
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... nature was flux and whose paradigm was the river . For Saint Francis water was the mirror of artless nature and a model for his own conduct : " Praised be my Lord for our sister water , who is very serviceable unto us and humble and ...
... nature was flux and whose paradigm was the river . For Saint Francis water was the mirror of artless nature and a model for his own conduct : " Praised be my Lord for our sister water , who is very serviceable unto us and humble and ...
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... nature , of the operation of the receptive and creative functions of mind . For the Romantics , the river and its source provided the most compelling , frequent , and inevitable figurings of those processes and their implications . They ...
... nature , of the operation of the receptive and creative functions of mind . For the Romantics , the river and its source provided the most compelling , frequent , and inevitable figurings of those processes and their implications . They ...
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... natural enactment and embodiment of the creative impulse . The path traced by chapter three is retrocessive ... nature of this transformation is examined in terms of Coleridge's personal psychology and through Keats's access to ...
... natural enactment and embodiment of the creative impulse . The path traced by chapter three is retrocessive ... nature of this transformation is examined in terms of Coleridge's personal psychology and through Keats's access to ...
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... nature . The outcome is as much psychological as situational . The actual missing parents may have become unnecessary or superfluous to the anagnorisis , but the hero is brought to his confrontation with what is more crucial : their liv ...
... nature . The outcome is as much psychological as situational . The actual missing parents may have become unnecessary or superfluous to the anagnorisis , but the hero is brought to his confrontation with what is more crucial : their liv ...
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... Nature breathes among the hills and groves . When , having left his mountains , to the towers Of Cockermouth that beauteous river came , Behind my father's house he passed , close by Along the margin of our terrace walk . ( 1.271-89 ) ...
... Nature breathes among the hills and groves . When , having left his mountains , to the towers Of Cockermouth that beauteous river came , Behind my father's house he passed , close by Along the margin of our terrace walk . ( 1.271-89 ) ...
Conteúdo
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2 Sources | 37 |
3 The Guardian and the Spring | 46 |
Maid Woman Bower and Wilderness | 67 |
Her Literary and Social History | 101 |
Endymion | 115 |
Lamia Belles Dames and Deceiving Elves | 127 |
Heroic Landscape and the River Journey in Alastor | 145 |
9 The Witch of Atlas and the Mythic Geography of the Nile | 164 |
Epilogue | 186 |
Notes | 189 |
Index | 211 |
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Rivermen: A Romantic Iconography of the River and the Source Frederic Stewart Colwell Visualização parcial - 1989 |
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