Stories of Chaos
Reason and its Displacement in Early Modern English Narrative
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2020
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-34871-4 (ISBN)
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-34871-4 (ISBN)
First published in 1999, this volume re-examines narrative design in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Faerie Queene, King Lear and Paradise Lost. Written in a period newly set on finding practical application for available systems of reasoning, these texts confront in their different ways reason’s absolute limitation in the face of a Real which it cannot adequately represent to itself or recruit to its own purposes. An influential model for the staging of such a confrontation was the mythic, cosmological narrative of Plato’s Timaeus. In their rewriting of Plato’s narrative the English texts deploy but also destabilize the ancient conceptual polarization of the ‘rational’ and the ‘irrational’ or ‘chaotic’, rethought in the terms offered by their period’s innovatory practices of reasoning. The study establishes the critical importance of telling a story of chaos by comparing the narrative method of its chosen texts with that adopted by Freud and Lacan as a means of reflection on the psychoanalytic encounter with an ultimately chaotic Real.
This book has unusual interdisciplinary scope, and offers historically grounded, theoretically informed new readings of four major early modern English literary texts.
This book has unusual interdisciplinary scope, and offers historically grounded, theoretically informed new readings of four major early modern English literary texts.
Nick Davis
1. Introductory: Reason and Symbolic Bliss. 2. A Mathematical Plot: Plato’s Likely Story … Er, Stories. 3. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: an Unfolded Narrative. 4. ‘A Foolish Mad World’: The Faerie Queene as Critique of Reason. 5. ‘These Late Eclipses’: Reason’s Primal Scene. 6. Milton Swallows Chaos. 7. Retrospect: but, Narrative is Not Cosmology.
Erscheinungsdatum | 16.01.2021 |
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Reihe/Serie | Routledge Revivals |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Gewicht | 299 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-138-34871-6 / 1138348716 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-138-34871-4 / 9781138348714 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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