Supplement of Reading: Figures of Understanding in Romantic Theory and Practice

by Tilottama Rajan

Book Overview

Tilottama Rajan illuminates a crisis of representation within romanticism, evident in the proliferation of stylistically and structurally unsettled literary texts that resist interpretation in terms of a unified meaning. The Supplement of Reading investigates the role of the reader both in romantic literary texts and in the hermeneutic theory that has responded to and generated such texts. Rajan considers how selected works by Coleridge,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801420458
• ISBN13: 9780801420450
• Release Date: October 1990
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher