Mind in Creation: Essays on English Romantic Literature in Honour of Ross G. Woodman

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 1992 - Literary Criticism - 182 pages
The seven contributors to The Mind in Creation bring different critical perspectives -- including historical, textual, and deconstructive methodologies -- to bear on a variety of Romantic authors: Blake, Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, and Keats. Together, their essays offer a representative view of the diversity of Romantic studies, from Byron's use of history to Blake's theory of illustration. A retrospective essay by Woodman himself surveys the past and anticipates the future of Romantic studies in the twentieth century. The Mind in Creation offers a uniquely Canadian perspective: the senior scholars and younger critics who have contributed to this volume -- some of them colleagues and former students of Professor Woodman's -- are all professors of literature at Canadian universities. The Mind in Creation brings together both traditional and innovative approaches to Romanticism in honour of a man whose prolific criticism and lifelong commitment to teaching literature have truly been acts of the mind in creation -- inspirational, exemplary, and lasting. The contributors include: David L. Clark, Jared Curtis, J. Douglas Kneale, W.J.B. Owen, Tilottama Rajan, Ronald Tetreault, and Milton Wilson. The collection also provides a selected bibliography of Ross G. Woodman.

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Such Structures as the Mind Builds27
27
The Tinker Tinkered44
44
Women and Words in Keats with an Instance from
58
The Book of Thel and Visions
74
Apostrophe Reconsidered91
91
Illustrative Theory
106
Prometheus Bound The Case for Jupiter134
134
Selected Bibliography of Ross G Woodman175
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