Byron's Don Juan Contributor(s): Beatty, Bernard (Author) |
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ISBN: 1138648566 ISBN-13: 9781138648562 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | Modern - 19th Century |
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Lord Byron |
Physical Information: 258 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: First published in 1985. What sort of poem is Don Juan, and how does it maintain its momentum through its long and often struggling narrative? These are the questions that Bernard Beatty proposes in this subtle and elegant discussion of Byron's masterwork. The legend of Don Juan was entrenched in European literature and other arts long before it came under Byron's hands, yet Byron's treatment of the story is often almost unrecognisably far from its forebears. Beatty indicates how deeply Byron has assimilated his predecessors in order to produce his own work. The sustained argument of this book raises questions of interest not only to students of Byron but of comedy in general, as well as of the place of religious motifs in apparently secularised modes. |