The Confessional Imagination: A Reading of Wordsworth's PreludeJohns Hopkins University Press, 1974-09-01 - 226 psl. Originally published in 1974. This book concerns the archetypal quality of Wordsworth's The Prelude, specifically the ways in which it develops and defines concepts of language, time, and narrative that influenced writers who came after Wordsworth. Frank D. McConnell sees the philosopher and theologian St. Augustine as the most suggestive analogue for the Wordsworthian quest for lost time and for the redemptive power of memory. McConnell maps similarities and dissimilarities between Wordsworth's Prelude and Augustine's Confessions. Each chapter of the book centers on an aspect of Wordsworth's confessional procedure in writing the poem. Chapter 1 ascribes peculiarities in the mode of address to The Prelude's definitive auditor, Coleridge, as a felt presence that shapes the overall form of the poem. Chapter 2 discusses the confessional—and Wordsworthian—view of the human career, contrasting the holistic and organic ideal of man's development with a more ancient and allegorical, or daemonic, view against which the confessional vision struggles. Chapter 3 carries the argument to the more fundamental level of the senses of sight and hearing. And chapter 4 deals with language itself, the irreducible counters of Wordsworth's vision and the highly specialized confessional language of "Edenic words." The general direction of the author's reading is a narrowing of focus from the most general to the most specific features of the confessional act. |
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... problem of growth is actually a special case of the major problem of the daemonic .头 Paradise Regained is , to paraphrase John Crowe Ransom's desig- nation of Lycidas , “ a poem nearly confessional . " Louis Martz , in his valuable ...
... problem Wordsworth eleswhere describes as that of the retrospective duality of consciousness : ... often do I seem Two consciousnesses , conscious of myself And of some other Being . ( 2. 31-33 ) This duality , as is implied by the word ...
... problem of knowing another person in and through the body . And the subtlety with which it approaches the problem is at least as great as any of the contemporary existential or phenomenological treatments of this crucial and intricate ...
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