03782oam 22006014a 450 991052469980332120230621135344.00-8018-1574-61-4214-3554-3(CKB)4100000010460994(OCoLC)1129021515(MdBmJHUP)muse78501(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/88961(MiAaPQ)EBC29139130(Au-PeEL)EBL29139130(oapen)doab88961(OCoLC)1526862780(EXLCZ)99410000001046099420190926h20191974 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Confessional ImaginationA Reading of Wordsworth's Prelude /[by] Frank D. McConnell1st ed.Johns Hopkins University Press1 online resource (1 online resource (ix, 211 pages :)portrait)Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program.The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International LicenseOriginally published as Johns Hopkins Press in 19741-4214-3555-1 1-4214-3556-X Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-207).The poem to Coleridge -- The sense of the human -- The tyrant eye -- Edenic words -- Appendix One. James Nayler -- Appendix Two. William Cowper -- Appendix Three. Silas Told.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.English poetryConfession in literaturefast(OCoLC)fst00874672Confession dans la litt©eratureConfession in literatureElectronic books. English poetry.Confession in literature.Confession dans la litt©erature.Confession in literature.821/.7McConnell Frank D.1942-1999.449782MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910524699803321The Confessional Imagination2781892UNINA