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This book explores the poetics of "fancy" in the works of Gerard Manley Hopkins, a term often paired with imagination in well-known Romantic poetics. It sheds new light on this concept, which is described positively in Hopkins's poetics and later becomes the essence of his idiosyncrat...

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Main Author: Tanabe, Kumiko (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.
Subjects:
Hopkins, Gerard Manley, > 1844-1889 > Criticism and interpretation.
1800-1899
Imagination in literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One
  • 1.1. Introduction
  • 1.2. Coleridge's Definition of Fancy and Imagination
  • 1.3. Ruskin's Definition of Fancy and Imagination
  • 1.4. Hopkins's Introduction of Fancy into his Poetics
  • 1.4.1. Hopkins's Definition of Fancy and Imaginationin 'Poetic Diction'
  • 1.4.2. Fancy as 'Diatonic Beauty'
  • 1.4.3. Hopkins's Quest for the Origin of Words as Christand Fancy
  • 1.4.4. Toward 'the New Realism'
  • 1.5. Conclusion
  • Chapter Two
  • 2.1. Hopkins's Definition of 'the Language of Inspiration'and 'Parnassian'
  • 2.2. Hopkins's Obsession with Beauty and Fancy
  • 2.2.1. Introduction
  • 2.2.2. Hopkins's Obsession with Beauty
  • 2.2.3. 'The Flight of Fancy' as the Theme of the Parnassian School
  • 2.2.4. 'The Flight of Fancy' in 'Il Mystico'
  • 2.2.5. The Imagination of the Poet in 'A Vision of the Mermaids'
  • 2.2.6. Hopkins's Departure from Wordsworth and Ke
  • 2.3. The Power of Fancy in the Disguised Heroines of Shakespeare
  • 2.3.1. Hopkins's Interest in Shakespeare's Fancy
  • 2.3.2. The Merchant of Venice
  • 2.3.3. As You Like It
  • 2.3.4. Twelfth Night
  • 2.3.5. Conclusion
  • 2.4. Between Truth and Untruth
  • 2.5. Hopkins's Experiments with 'The Language of Inspiration'Produced by Fancy
  • 2.5.1. 'Floris in Italy'
  • 2.5.2. 'The Beginning of the End'
  • Chapter Three
  • 3.1. Introduction
  • 3.2. Hopkins's Conversion to Catholicism and his Belief in the RealPresence in the Eucharist
  • 3.3. Fancy in the Gothic Revival
  • 3.3.1. Fancy in Gothic Architecture
  • 3.3.2. Hopkins's Sympathy for 'Oddness' in the Fancyof William Butterfield
  • 3.4. Hopkins's Fancy and Inscape
  • 3.4.1. Fancy as Revealing Inscape in Nature
  • 3.4.2. Fancy as Revealing Inscape in Gothic Architecture.
  • 3.4.3. Fancy, Inscape and the 'Haecceitas' of Duns Scotus
  • 3.4.4. Fancy, Inscape and 'the Affective Will'
  • 3.4.5. Fancy, Inscape and Metalanguage
  • 3.5. Fancy in the Baroque
  • 3.6. 'Fancy, Come Faster'
  • 3.7. Fancy in Hopkins's Sonnets Composed between 1877 and 1882
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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