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Bewilderments of Vision - Hallucination and Literature, 1880-1914 (Paperback)
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Bewilderments of Vision - Hallucination and Literature, 1880-1914 (Paperback)
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According to Oscar Wilde, the primary aim of the critic is to see
the object as in itself it really is not'. Through a series of
close and often unusual readings, this book endeavours to develop
Wilde's remark into a detailed and creative theory of reading. Or
perhaps that should be misreading: for, as this experimental work
of criticism negotiates its way among the works of a number of
late-nineteenth-century writers, particularly Robert Louis
Stevenson and Wilde himself, Tearle uncovers some of the ways in
which we as readers are prone to hallucinations while reading
about, of all things, the experience of hallucination. Focusing in
detail on a series of neologisms from writing of the period, such
as 'handconscience', 'figmentary', and 'aftersense', and moving
between a number of disciplines including literature, criticism,
science, psychoanalysis, and even linguistics, Bewilderments of
Vision endeavours to answer a number of questions, ranging from the
urgent to the downright bizarre: What is the link between
hallucination and social conscience in writing of the
late-nineteenth century? Is there such a thing as textual
hallucination? Why does the author of this book see a 'snake' that
is not there when he 'reads' Jekyll and Hyde?
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