Coleridge and Textual Instability: The Multiple Versions of the Major Poems
Jack Stillinger establishes and documents the existence of numerous different authoritative versions of Coleridge's best-known poems: sixteen or more of The Eolian Harp, for example, eighteen of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and comparable numbers for This Lime-Tree Bower, Frost at Midnight, Kubla Khan, Christabel, and Dejection: An Ode. Such multiplicity of versions raises interesting theoretical and practical questions about the constitution of the Coleridge canon, the ontological identity of any specific work in the canon, the editorial treatment of Coleridge's works, and the ways in which multiple versions complicate interpretation of the poems as a unified (or, as the case may be, disunified) body of work. Providing much new information about the texts and production of Coleridge's major poems, Stillinger's study offers intriguing new theories about the nature of authorship and the constitution of literary works.
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Coleridge and Textual Instability: The Multiple Versions of the Major Poems
Jack Stillinger establishes and documents the existence of numerous different authoritative versions of Coleridge's best-known poems: sixteen or more of The Eolian Harp, for example, eighteen of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and comparable numbers for This Lime-Tree Bower, Frost at Midnight, Kubla Khan, Christabel, and Dejection: An Ode. Such multiplicity of versions raises interesting theoretical and practical questions about the constitution of the Coleridge canon, the ontological identity of any specific work in the canon, the editorial treatment of Coleridge's works, and the ways in which multiple versions complicate interpretation of the poems as a unified (or, as the case may be, disunified) body of work. Providing much new information about the texts and production of Coleridge's major poems, Stillinger's study offers intriguing new theories about the nature of authorship and the constitution of literary works.
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Coleridge and Textual Instability: The Multiple Versions of the Major Poems

Coleridge and Textual Instability: The Multiple Versions of the Major Poems

by Jack Stillinger
Coleridge and Textual Instability: The Multiple Versions of the Major Poems

Coleridge and Textual Instability: The Multiple Versions of the Major Poems

by Jack Stillinger

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Jack Stillinger establishes and documents the existence of numerous different authoritative versions of Coleridge's best-known poems: sixteen or more of The Eolian Harp, for example, eighteen of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and comparable numbers for This Lime-Tree Bower, Frost at Midnight, Kubla Khan, Christabel, and Dejection: An Ode. Such multiplicity of versions raises interesting theoretical and practical questions about the constitution of the Coleridge canon, the ontological identity of any specific work in the canon, the editorial treatment of Coleridge's works, and the ways in which multiple versions complicate interpretation of the poems as a unified (or, as the case may be, disunified) body of work. Providing much new information about the texts and production of Coleridge's major poems, Stillinger's study offers intriguing new theories about the nature of authorship and the constitution of literary works.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780195358926
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 05/12/1994
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 984 KB

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Table of Contents

Abbreviationsxi
1.Introduction: The Current State of Coleridge's Poetic Texts3
2.The Multiple Versions26
The Eolian Harp27
This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison43
Frost at Midnight52
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner60
Kubla Khan73
Christabel79
Dejection: An Ode91
3.Coleridge as Reviser100
4.A Practical Theory of Versions118
AppendixTexts and Apparatuses141
The Eolian Harp142
This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison148
Frost at Midnight154
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner158
Kubla Khan: or, A Vision in a Dream185
Christabel189
Dejection: An Ode216
A Letter to226
Notes237
Index251
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