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Coleridge and Textual Instability

By Jack Stillinger

Coleridge and Textual Instability

By Jack Stillinger

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Textual pluralism holds that there can exist more than one authoritative version of a literary work, and that only by viewing the collective versions can the constitution of a work be seen. In Coleridge and Textual Instability, Jack Stillinger establishes and documents the existence of numerous different authoritative versions of Coleridge's best-known poems: sixteen or more of The Eolian Harp, for example, eighteen of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and comparable numbers for This Lime-Tree Bower, Frost at Midnight, Kubla Khan, Christabel, and Dejection: An Ode. Such multiplicity of versions raises interesting theoretical and practical questions about the make-up of the Coleridge canon, the ontological identity of any specific work in the canon, the editorial treatment of Coleridge's works, and the ways in which multiple versions complicate interpretation of the poems as a unified (or, as the case may be, disunified) body of work. Providing much new information about the texts and production of Coleridge's major poems, Stillinger's study offers intriguing new theories about the nature of authorship and the composition of literary works.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
268
Release Date:
1994-05-12
Publication Date:
1994-12-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0195085833
ISBN13:
9780195085839
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
590 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
20 cm
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