Shelleyan Eros : the Rhetoric of Romantic Love.

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In this work William Ulmer boldly advances our understanding of Shelley's concept of love by exploring eros as a figure for the poet's political and artistic aspirations. Applying a combination of deconstructive, historicist, and psychoanalytic approaches to six major poems, Ulmer follows the logic of the writing's rhetoric of love by tracing links between such elements as imagination, eros, metaphor, allegory, mirroring, repetition, death, and narcissism. Ulmer takes the mutual desire of self and antitype as a paradigm for rhetorical and social relations throughout Shelley and, in a signif.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- EDITIONS AND ABBREVIATIONS -- Chapter 1. SHELLEY'S POETICS OF LOVE -- Chapter 2. THE VANISHED BODY -- Chapter 3. EROS AND REVOLUTION -- Chapter 4. THE UNBINDING OF METAPHOR -- Chapter 5. THE POLITICS OF RECEPTION -- Chapter 6. ITALIAN PLATONICS -- Chapter 7. SHELLEY'S DEATH MASQUE -- INDEX

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