Wordsworth's fun / Matthew Bevis, Monographie imprimée
Language: anglais.Country: EtatsUnis, GrandeBretagne.Publication : Chicago, London : The University of Chicago Press, 2019Description: 1 vol. (303 p.) : couv. ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 978-0-226-65205-4; 978-0-226-65219-1.Dewey: 821/.7, 23Abstract: La 4e de couv. indique : " 'The next day Wordsworth arrived from Bristol at Coleridge's cottage', William Hazlitt recalled. 'He answered in some degree to his friend's description of him, but was more quaint and Don Quixote-like...there was a convulsive inclination to laughter about the mouth'. Hazlitt presents a Wordsworth who differs from the one we know - and, as Matthew Bevis argues in his radical new reading of the poet, this Wordsworth owed his quixotic creativity to a profound feeling for comedy. « Wordsworth's fun » explores the writer's debts to the ludic and the ludicrous in classical tradition; his reworkings of Ariosto, Erasmus, and Cervantes; his engagement with forms of English poetic humor; and his love of comic prose. Combining close reading with cultural analysis, Bevis travels many untrodden ways, studying Wordsworth's interest in laughing gas, pantomime, the figure of the fool, and the value of play. Intrepid, immersive, and entertaining, « Wordsworth's fun » sheds fresh light on how one poet's strange humor helped to shape modern literary experiment.".Bibliography: Notes bibliogr. en fin d'ouvrage. Index.Subject - Personal Name: Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 Critique et interprétation | Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 Humour | Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 Thèmes, motifs Subject - Topical Name: Humour, Dans la littérature -- Grande-Bretagne -- Angleterre (GB) 18e siècle | Humour, Dans la littérature -- Grande-Bretagne -- Angleterre (GB) 19e siècle | Comique (littérature) -- Grande-Bretagne -- Angleterre (GB) 18e siècle | Comique (littérature) -- Grande-Bretagne -- Angleterre (GB) 19e siècleItem type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Prêt normal | BU Chevreul 4ème étage : Langues | Anglais | 820.06 Wordsworth BEV (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | Available | 0380595681 |
Notes bibliogr. en fin d'ouvrage. Index
La 4e de couv. indique : " 'The next day Wordsworth arrived from Bristol at Coleridge's cottage', William Hazlitt recalled. 'He answered in some degree to his friend's description of him, but was more quaint and Don Quixote-like...there was a convulsive inclination to laughter about the mouth'. Hazlitt presents a Wordsworth who differs from the one we know - and, as Matthew Bevis argues in his radical new reading of the poet, this Wordsworth owed his quixotic creativity to a profound feeling for comedy. « Wordsworth's fun » explores the writer's debts to the ludic and the ludicrous in classical tradition; his reworkings of Ariosto, Erasmus, and Cervantes; his engagement with forms of English poetic humor; and his love of comic prose. Combining close reading with cultural analysis, Bevis travels many untrodden ways, studying Wordsworth's interest in laughing gas, pantomime, the figure of the fool, and the value of play. Intrepid, immersive, and entertaining, « Wordsworth's fun » sheds fresh light on how one poet's strange humor helped to shape modern literary experiment."
Facing him Laughing Echoes Fits Pains Playing Children Reprobates Idlers Fooling Vices Naturals Idiots Humoring Oddities Medleys Selves