Byron and the Limits of FictionBernard G. Beatty, Vincent Newey This collection of new articles aims to answer the fundamental questions of Byron's attitude to fiction and to the limits inherent in this art form and in life itself. The book's purpose, as well as celebrating the bicentennial of Byron's birth, has been to assemble a collection of scholarly and informed articles round a particular theme. In this work the theme (given in the title) arises in two ways; first, Byron himself was passionately concerned with the nature and status of fiction and yet often sceptical of its importance. Secondly, it is a major topic of current literary criticism which is increasingly preoccupied with fictions as completely autonomous structures. Byron's poetry should be seen as a version of these concerns but also as one of the earliest deliberate challenges to them. All of Byron's major poems, together with his forays into prose fiction, are considered in this volume. Contributors pursue their own approaches but a particular emphasis of the volume as a whole is the strange immediacy of Byron's poetry, which seems to arise from both the self-consciousness of his undertaking and from his fidelity to what is rather than what is merely known or stated. The method of most contributors is to address these important topics, but substantiate their arguments by detailed reading of texts. |
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Page 16
... begin with a mythical island , then Christian and his followers seem to be wretched historical outsiders . A Fletcher ... begins and ends . And yet Byron's island , impossible to classify as fiction or fact , bifurcates into 16 Fiction's ...
... begin with a mythical island , then Christian and his followers seem to be wretched historical outsiders . A Fletcher ... begins and ends . And yet Byron's island , impossible to classify as fiction or fact , bifurcates into 16 Fiction's ...
Page 98
... begins , depending on one's point of view , and if 10 it promptly vanishes again until the latter . Nor can it facilely be claimed that somehow the reader has an inbuilt expectation of a plot which is never properly fulfilled , for the ...
... begins , depending on one's point of view , and if 10 it promptly vanishes again until the latter . Nor can it facilely be claimed that somehow the reader has an inbuilt expectation of a plot which is never properly fulfilled , for the ...
Page 138
... begins quite differently . He also introduces two male characters not so much to contrast as to partially mirror each other . Where Polidori's narrator is constantly looking over Aubrey's shoulder to ironize the intensity of his ...
... begins quite differently . He also introduces two male characters not so much to contrast as to partially mirror each other . Where Polidori's narrator is constantly looking over Aubrey's shoulder to ironize the intensity of his ...
Contents
Fictions Limit and Edens Door BERNARD BEATTY I | 1 |
Lyric Presence in Byron from the Tales to | 39 |
The Orientalism of Byrons Giaour MARILYN | 78 |
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