Reading The Eve of St.Agnes The Multiples of Complex Literary Transaction,9780195130225

Reading The Eve of St.Agnes The Multiples of Complex Literary Transaction

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ISBN13: 9780195130225
ISBN10: 0195130227
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1999-10-14
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary

Using the 180-year history of Keats's Eve of St. Agnes as a basis for theorizing about the reading process, Stillinger's book explores the nature and whereabouts of "meaning" in complex works. A proponent of authorial intent, Stillinger argues a theoretical compromise between author and reader, applying a theory of interpretive democracy that includes the endlessly multifarious reader's response as well as Keats's guessed-at intent. Stillinger also considers the process of constructing meaning, and posits an answer to why Keats's work is considered canonical, and why it is still being read and admired.

Author Biography

Jack Stillinger is Center for Advanced Study Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Literary Transaction
3(14)
Author---Text---Reader: Where's the Meaning?
3(4)
The Complication of Multiples
7(4)
The Legitimacy of Audience
11(6)
The Starting Materials: Texts and Circumstances
17(18)
Composition, Revision, Publication of The Eve of St. Agnes
18(5)
The Textual Versions
23(9)
Keats's Comments on the Poem
32(3)
The Multiple Readings
35(44)
The Stories of the Poem
36(1)
The Three Bears and Single Meanings
37(2)
A Token Fifty-nine Interpretations
39(40)
Why There Are So Many Meanings (I): Complex Readership
79(18)
Multiple Readers
80(2)
The Reading Process
82(5)
Keats's ``Innumerable Compositions''
87(2)
A Practical Theory of Multiple Interpretation
89(4)
Multiple Meanings and the Improvement of Reading
93(4)
Why There Are So Many Meanings (II): Complex Authorship
97(18)
The Idea of Incongruity
98(3)
Multiple Keats
101(6)
The Keats Map
107(8)
Conclusion: Keats ``among the English Poets''
115(40)
The Origins of Canonicity
115(5)
Canonical Complexity
120(6)
The Union of Complex Authorship and Complex Readership
126(5)
Appendixes
A. Text and Apparatus
131(16)
B. Fifty-nine Ways of Looking at The Eve of St. Agnes
147(4)
C. Paintings and Book Illustrations
151(4)
Notes 155(12)
Bibliography 167(12)
Index 179

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