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Record Nr.

UNINA9910794781303321

Autore

Potkay Adam <1961->

Titolo

Wordsworth's ethics [[electronic resource] /] / Adam Potkay

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012

ISBN

1-4214-0758-2

Descrizione fisica

ix, 254 p

Disciplina

821/.7

Soggetti

Ethics in literature

Music and literature

Music in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Audition and attachment -- Close encounters (i) -- Close encounters (ii) -- The ethics of things -- Music vs. conscience -- Captivation and liberty in poems on music -- The moral sublime -- Independence and interdependence -- Surviving death -- The poetics of life -- Envoy : Wordsworth's afterlives.