Naslov
Politics as Absence in 'Tintern Abbey' and 'Mont Blanc'

Autori
Domines Veliki, Martina

Izvornik
Studia Romanica et Anglica Zagrabiensia (0039-3339) 63 (2018); 113-127

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
Tintern Abbey ; Mont Blanc ; Wordsworth ; P.B. Shelley

Sažetak
This paper will take as its starting point the analysis of two complementary poems, by two Romantic writers, Wordsworth and Shelley. The comparative analysis of their two greatest ‘nature’ poems, namely ‘Tintern Abbey’ and ‘Mont Blanc’ is in many ways justified by the fact that Wordsworth was seen by Shelley as his literary father and ‘Mont Blanc’ is Shelley’s response to ‘Tintern Abbey’. In order to highlight the idea that in both poems ‘nature’ acts as an empty signifier and thus questions rather than asserts their radical potential, I want to focus on the controlling power of politics which is absent from these poems. This type of reading then becomes an extension of the new historicist view that most Romantic poems occlude their involvement in historical relations and shows that they cannot be read without taking into account the forces of politics.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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