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Acts of Inclusion - Studies Bearing on an Elementary Theory of Romanticism (Hardcover)
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Acts of Inclusion - Studies Bearing on an Elementary Theory of Romanticism (Hardcover)
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The copious attention visited on romanticism during recent decades
has only rarely resulted in comprehensive theoretical
constructions. This new work by Michael Cooke, offering an explicit
theory of romanticism, is thus both needed and valuable. Cooke
proposes that the multifariousness of the movement-found in single
works and authors and compounded in the cross-relations among
authors-is not an obstacle but a clue to grasping the singular
essence of romanticism. The romantic writer, refusing the cloak of
hereditary values and forms, looks for value in a context of
uncertainty and openness on a principle of essential
non-exclusiveness. For anything possible to be posited, everything
possible must be taken into account. The concept of inclusion,
manifesting itself at almost any level-formal, thematic, generic,
rhetorical, actional, or passional-underlies and reconciles much of
romanticism's apparent diversity, inconsistency, and incongruity:
indeed, romantic literature may be said to constitute acts of
inclusion. Cooke explores his thesis in chapters on romanticism and
the universality of art; on elegy, prophecy, and satire; on the
norm of consequences in romanticism; on the feminine as the crux of
value; on the mode of argument, especially in Wordsworth's poetry;
and on Don Juan as a test case of romantic form, exhibiting at once
the obsession and the self-discipline of spontaneity. Arguing
cogently and originally, he comes to terms with a fundamental truth
about romanticism.
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