Keats's negative capability : new origins and afterlives

Keats's negative capability : new origins and afterlives /

Few critical terms coined by poets are more famous than ""negative capability."" Though Keats uses the mysterious term only once, a consensus about its meaning has taken shape over the last two centuries. Keats's Negative Capability: New Origins and Afterlives offers alterna...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Rejack, Brian (Editor), Theune, Michael, 1970- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2019.
Series:Romantic reconfigurations.
Subjects:
Keats, John, > 1795-1821 > Criticism and interpretation.
Keats, John, > 1795-1821
Literary theory.
Literary theory
Literature > Philosophy.
negative capacity
Poetry by individual poets.
Literary studies: poetry & poets.
Social & cultural history.
Society & culture: general.
Cultural studies.
Literature: history & criticism.
POETRY > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Poetry.
Literature > Philosophy
poetry.
Poetry
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Poetry.
Poésie.
Online Access:Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed)
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Reading negative capability, 1817-2017 / Brian Rejack and Michael Theune - Part I. 'Swelling into reality' : new contexts for negative capability. 1. Keats's negative capability : on pantomime and ìrritable reaching' / Brian Bates ; 2. John Keats's Jeffrey's 'negative capability'; or, Accidentally undermining Keats / Brian Rejack ; 3. Keats's 'negative capability' and Hazlitt's 'natural capacity' / Michael Theune ; 4. 'That strong excepted soul' : nineteenth-century women read Keats / Carmen Faye Mathes
  • Part II. 'Examplified throughout' : forms of negatively capable reading. 5. Negatively capable reading / Cassandra Falke ; 6. Knowledge's 'gordian shape' : Keats and the disciplines / Kurtis Hessel ; 7. 'Irritable reaching' and the conditions of romantic mediation / Jeanne Britton ; 8. 'Uncertainties, mysteries, doubts' : pluralities and the historical present in Keats and Hazlitt / Emily Rohrbach
  • Part III. 'Pursued through volumes', Volume I: Negative capability in twentieth- and twenty-first-century American poetry. 9. Beyond the great divide : negative capability and postwar American poetics / Robert Archambeau ; 10. Versions of negative capability in modern American poetry and criticism / Eric Eisner ; 11. 'Giddily off into the unknown' : negative capability and naturalism in Elizabeth Bishop's poetics / Arsevi Seyran ; 12. 'Darkling I listen' : Jorie Graham and negative capability / Thomas Gardner
  • Part. IV 'Pursued through volumes', Volume II: Adaptations, appropriations, mutations. 13. Negative capability in the twenty-first century and romantic self annihilation in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials / Suzanne L. Barnett ; 14. Negative capability in psychoanalysis : Keats and retroactive judgment in Bion, Freud, Lacan, and Milner / David Sigler ; 15. Zen and the art of negative capability / Anne C. McCarthy ; 16. Negative capability in dialogic context / Walter L. Reed - Afterword: Reading Keats's negative capability / Jonathan Mulrooney.

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