Middling Romanticism: Reading in the Gaps, from Kant to Ashbery

Middling Romanticism: Reading in the Gaps, from Kant to Ashbery
ISBN-10
0823288439
ISBN-13
9780823288434
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
224
Language
English
Published
2020-06-02
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Author
Zachary Sng

Description

Romanticism is often understood as an age of extremes, yet it also marks the birth of the modern medium in all senses of the word. Engaging with key texts of the romantic period, the book outlines a wide-reaching project to re-imagine the middle as a constitutive principle. Sng argues that Romanticism dislodges such terms as medium, moderation, and mediation from serving as mere self-evident tools that conduct from one pole to another. Instead, they offer a dwelling in and with the middle: an attention to intervals, interstices, and gaps that make these terms central to modern understandings of relation.

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