EAN: 9783631582367

IMAGINATION METAPHOR AND MYTHOPEIEA IN WORDSWOR...

The book studies metaphor  myth and their imaginative aspects in the poetry of William
Wordsworth  Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats. Relying on Kantian  Romantic  Neo-Kantian and
modern ideas of imagination  metaphor and myth  the book proposes that imagination is an
inherently metaphorizing and mythologizing faculty because the act of perception is an act of
giving form to natural phenomena and seeing similitude in dissimilitude  which are basically
metaphorical and mythological acts. Studying selected poems  the author explores how in its
form-giving activity the imagination of the speaking subject 'mythologizes' and 'metaphorizes'
by seeing objects of nature as spiritual  animate or divine beings and thus transforming them
into the alien territory of myth. Myth and metaphor are analyzed in these poems mainly in two
regards: first  myth and metaphor are handled as inborn aspects of imagination and perception 
and the interaction between nature and imagination is presented as the origin of all mythology
second  to show how myth is re-created time and again by poetic imagination  Romantic
mythography and re-creation of precursor mythologies are analyzed.

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