Sound and vision : sonic experience in Wordsworth, Blake, and Clare
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation re-orients the study of Romantic poetry by advocating a shift in Romanticist critical discourse away from the visual sensorium and towards a focus on sound. I examine three major poets—William Wordsworth, William Blake, and John Clare—whose work has been critiqued, celebrated, or otherwise understood through a critical focus both centered on and shaped by tropes of visuality. An investigation of poetic sound, I argue, helps us understand the work of these poets on a more fundamental level. Sound was used by these writers to promote the aesthetic mode of experience over and against social and intellectual forces that threatened the essential freedom of the human imagination. In doing so, they were also writing against a millenia-old tradition in Western thought that privileged visual over audible experience.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2016 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Haas, Ryan |
|---|---|
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of English. |
| Primary advisor | Greene, Roland, 1957- |
| Thesis advisor | Greene, Roland, 1957- |
| Thesis advisor | Gelpi, Albert |
| Thesis advisor | Vermeule, Blakey |
| Advisor | Gelpi, Albert |
| Advisor | Vermeule, Blakey |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Ryan Haas. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of English. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2016. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2016 by Ryan Douglas Haas
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-SA).
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