03666oam 2200745 c 450 991078106060332120200115203623.01-4411-0103-91-4742-1146-11-282-45303-31-4411-7091-X10.5040/9781474211468(CKB)2550000000005763(EBL)476541(OCoLC)593209858(SSID)ssj0000339560(PQKBManifestationID)11266672(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000339560(PQKBWorkID)10364593(PQKB)10235544(MiAaPQ)EBC476541(Au-PeEL)EBL476541(CaPaEBR)ebr10364052(CaONFJC)MIL245303(OCoLC)893334800(OCoLC)1138657170(UtOrBLW)bpp09257453(MiAaPQ)EBC6158752(MiAaPQ)EBC1727306(Au-PeEL)EBL1727306(OCoLC)893336636(EXLCZ)99255000000000576320091202d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrKeats and negative capabilityLi Ou1st ed.London New York Continuum 2009.1 online resource (223 p.)Continuum literary studies seriesDescription based upon print version of record.1-4411-8790-1 1-4411-4724-1 Includes bibliographical references (pages [196]-202) and indexGenealogy of negative capability -- King Lear and negative capability -- Negative capability and Keat's poetry -- Modernist heritage of negative capability -- The tradition of negative capabilityIntroduction: Anatomy of Negative Capability -- 1. Genealogy of Negative Capability -- 2. King Lear and Negative Capability -- 3. Negative Capability and Keats's Poetry -- 4. Modernist Heritage of Negative Capability -- Conclusion: The Tradition of Negative Capability  -- Bibliography -- Index"Negative capability", the term John Keats used only once in a letter to his brothers, is a well-known but surprisingly unexplored concept in literary criticism and aesthetics. This book is the first book-length study of this central concept in seventy years. As well as clarifying the meaning of the term and giving an anatomy of its key components, the book gives a full account of the history of this idea. It traces the narrative of how the phrase first became known and gradually gained currency, and explores its primary sources in earlier writers, principally Shakespeare and William Hazlitt, and its chief Modernist successors, W. B. Yeats and T. S. Eliot. Meanwhile, the term is also applied to Keats's own poetry, which manifests the evolution of the idea in Keats's poetic practice. Many of the comparative readings of the relevant texts, including King Lear, illuminate the interconnections between these major writers. The book is an original and significant piece of scholarship on this celebrated concept. Continuum literary studies.English literatureHistory and criticismLiterary studies: c 1500 to c 1800Uncertainty in literatureEnglish literatureHistory and criticism.Uncertainty in literature.821.7Ou Li1525795UtOrBLWUtOrBLWUkLoBPBOOK9910781060603321Keats and negative capability3767398UNINA