The Shelley-Byron Circle and the Idea of Europe

Stock, Paul

doi:10.1057/9780230106307

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“…Makdisi (2009) too writes that Shelley believed in the power of ancient Hellenic civilization as an initial pattern (p. 618). As Stock (2010) states, Shelley scrutinized the entire English society and the place of poetry in his A Defence of Poetry (1821) so as to arrive at this conclusion that poetry (and literature) might be regarded as the most powerful instrument of change and reformation in a society (p. 128). It can have the potential for building communities.…”

Section: The Role and Function Of Poetry And Poet-intellectual In Blomentioning

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Staging Romanticism and Dissidence in Howard Brenton’s Bloody Poetry

Farhadi

Mozaheb

2017

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Staging history is an approach of historicism that is widely practiced by the post-1968 British playwrights. Historical playwriting not only helps to identify and unmask repressive power institutions, but also to question the conventional trends in writing history in general. One of these playwrights is Howard Brenton. By staging the history of romanticism in the early nineteenth century and the self-imposed exile of Romantic figures in his play Bloody Poetry (1984) Brenton attempts to achieve multiple purposes. By using literary analysis and historical reading, the researchers identify the causes of Shelley-Byron circle's self-exile and the way in which a dissident discourse is formed as an opposition to the mechanism of disciplinary power and one of its powerful discourses which is journalism. In addition to this, they explore Brenton's main politics of representation of the role and function of poet-intellectual in public and how literature as a dissident discourse may function under the administration of Margaret Thatcher in the UK in the 1980s.

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Section: The Role and Function Of Poetry And Poet-intellectual In Blomentioning

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Staging Romanticism and Dissidence in Howard Brenton’s Bloody Poetry

Farhadi

Mozaheb

2017

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“…There is much to say about how philhellenic rhetoric reveals deep complexities in nineteenth-century understandings of European religion and civility: the extent to which one can define European 'civilisation' in terms of Greece, or the continuing role of Christianity in conceptions of Europe. 47 Here, however, I want to concentrate on philhellenism and politics, because this shows how 'real-and-imagined' understandings of…”

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