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Emblematic Strategies in Pre-Raphaelite Literature
Contributor(s): McAlpine, Heather (Author)
ISBN: 9004407634     ISBN-13: 9789004407633
Publisher: Brill
OUR PRICE:   $145.35  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: November 2019
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory
- Art | European
- Reference
Series: Costerus New
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.3" W x 9.1" (1.35 lbs) 331 pages
 
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In this book, Heather McAlpine argues that emblematic strategies play a more central role in Pre-Raphaelite poetics than has been acknowledged, and that reading Pre-Raphaelite works with an awareness of these strategies permits a new understanding of the movement's engagements with ontology, religion, representation, and politics. The emblem is a discursive practice that promises to stabilize language in the face of doubt, making it especially interesting as a site of conflicting responses to Victorian crises of representation. Through analyses of works by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Christina Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Gerard Manley Hopkins, A.C. Swinburne, and William Morris, Emblematic Strategies examines the Pre-Raphaelite movement's common goal of conveying "truth" while highlighting differences in its adherents' approaches to that task.