Borders of a lip
Borders of a lip: Romanticism, language, history, politics Jan Plug
Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, c2003.
ISBN: 0791459292
DDC: 809.9145094
LCC: PN751
Edition: (alk. paper)
Summary:
"This book recasts questions about the overlapping boundaries of
language, history, and politics that have been at the center of
critical and theoretical debates in the study of Romantic literature
and thought. While poststructuralism and deconstruction have been
accused of privileging language over history, the New Historicism and
other historicist and cultural approaches to literature have
attempted to restore history's place in the study of literature.
Taking its title from a reading of the word Lippe in Kleist's Die
Hermannsschlacht, Borders of a Lip is drawn to neither of these
poles, but instead to their meeting place or coincidence: the site of
a border, a political or national boundary, even the boundary that is
the political, the lip that is also the place of language. Through
readings of Kant, Wordsworth, Kleist, Mary Shelley, Yeats, and
Lyotard, the book examines the convergence of language and history
that takes place in their work.
Instead of placing language and history in absolute opposition,
making the border an unbreachable limit, the book explores how
crossing these borders (re)defines the political."--BOOK JACKET.
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