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Edward Thomas: Prose Writings: A Selected Edition: Volume V: Critical Studies: Swinburne and Pater de Francis O'Gorman

Edward Thomas: Prose Writings: A Selected Edition: Volume V: Critical Studies: Swinburne and Pater: Edward Thomas Prose Writing Selected Edition

Editat de Francis O'Gorman
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 27 apr 2017

Bazându-ne pe ediția critică definitivă publicată de OUP OXFORD, descoperim în acest al cincilea volum al seriei Edward Thomas Prose Writing Selected Edition o fațetă mai puțin explorată a lui Edward Thomas: cea de critic literar riguros. Deși Thomas este consacrat în canonul englez ca un poet esențial al Primului Război Mondial, activitatea sa în proză a rămas mult timp într-un con de umbră din cauza lipsei unor ediții academice sistematice. Acest volum, îngrijit de Francis O'Gorman, recuperează două studii de referință despre Swinburne și Pater, oferind o perspectivă rară asupra modului în care Thomas își evalua propria relație cu limbajul creativ prin prisma predecesorilor săi.

Observăm aici o structură narativă dublă: pe de o parte, avem analiza academică a doi titani victorieni, iar pe de altă parte, un exercițiu de introspecție marcat de neliniște și autocritică. Ediția se distinge prin aparatul critic masiv; notele și introducerea utilizează manuscrise originale pentru a trasa „urmele fizice” ale dificultăților de autorat pe care Thomas le proiecta asupra subiecților săi. Acoperă aceeași arie tematică precum volumul The Collected Works of Walter Pater, Volume V de Laurel Brake, dar cu o abordare mult mai personală, axată pe modul în care critica literară a servit drept punte către vocația sa poetică ulterioară. Spre deosebire de studiul semnat de Ralph Pite, Edward Thomas's Prose, care analizează proza independent de poezie, ediția de față demonstrează cum aceste studii critice au fost pași indispensabili în procesul prin care Thomas a realizat că proza nu era forma supremă pentru auto-exprimarea sa.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198738633
ISBN-10: 0198738633
Pagini: 462
Dimensiuni: 163 x 241 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.82 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Seria Edward Thomas Prose Writing Selected Edition

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Această ediție este esențială pentru cercetătorii literaturii edwardiene și pentru cititorii pasionați de istoria criticii literare. Oferă o înțelegere profundă a tranziției de la critic la poet, dezvăluind cum analiza operei lui Swinburne și Pater a modelat sensibilitatea modernă a lui Thomas. Este un instrument academic de neegalat, aducând la lumină manuscrise și texte rare într-un format riguros.

Despre autor

Francis O'Gorman este profesor la School of English din cadrul Universității din Leeds și un specialist recunoscut în literatura victoriană. Expertiza sa este vastă, fiind autorul lucrării „Worrying: A Cultural and Literary History” (2015) și editorul unor ediții prestigioase din opera lui Elizabeth Gaskell, Anthony Trollope și John Ruskin. În contextul seriei dedicate lui Edward Thomas, O'Gorman aduce o rigoare filologică deosebită, ancorând studiile critice ale lui Thomas în peisajul cultural mai larg al epocii, facilitând astfel o reevaluare modernă a prozei acestui autor canonic.

Descriere

Edward Thomas is a key figure in the English literary canon. A major twentieth-century poet, he was also one of England's most experienced and respected Edwardian and Georgian critics, and an exceptional observer of the countryside. Although he died at the age of only 39, his prose output was considerable and encompassed a wide range of genres: biography, autobiography, essays, reviews, fiction, nature books, travel writings, and anthologies. While Thomas's stature as a poet is widely appreciated, his prose works have yet to be given their critical due -- in large part because scholarly editions have hitherto been lacking. Edward Thomas: Prose Writings: A Selected Edition shows that Thomas's prose deserves to be much better known by literary scholars but also the general reading public. This six-volume edition establishes him as one of the most important prose writers in English, who contributed remarkable ideas and representations of the self and community, the landscape and ecology, literature and history, the spiritual and artistic life. It is the definitive edition of Thomas's prose and a significant scholarly resource for the twenty-first century.Volume V is dedicated to Edward Thomas's work in literary criticism. Known as a diverse and prolific reviewer of literature, including of modern poetry, Thomas also wrote a significant number of broadly critical studies at book length. These books helped alter his established reputation as a nature writer, and included studies of Lefcadio Hearn, Maurice Maeterlinck, and of Keats. Volume 5 reproduces the two most important of his works in criticism: Thomas's Algernon Charles Swinburne: A Study (1912) and Walter Pater: A Study (1913). These are important texts in the last few years of Thomas's career as a prose writer, in which obliquely he assesses his own relationship with prose and with creative language, analysing via two other writers what were some of the largest challenges for his authorship. Presented as an evaluation of two major Victorian writers, the two books are best understood as self-examination. And they are also, as the Introduction argues, telling versions of Thomas's 'unlived lives': in assessing both Swinburne and Pater, Thomas contemplates lives that he had not himself led. The books are suffused with his own dismay, self-criticism, longing, and desire. They are unmissable steps on Thomas the poet's way to discovering that prose was not the best literary form for his self-expression. Fully annotated, this edition draws widely on the surviving manuscripts of these two works to present a unique insight into Thomas at work, finding the physical traces in the manuscript record of the very troubles he was claiming true of two other writers. The edition also adds further literary material, including reviews and an early Paterian short-story by Thomas to indicate something of his debts -- sometimes despite his protestations -- to authors of the previous generation.

Recenzii

[A] finely-crafted book ... I remember writing that review in 2011 after reading the first volume of this superbly presented series, Autobiographies, and commenting upon one of the central themes haunting the work of Edward Thomas: the inability to ever go back; the inaccessibility of a past which haunts and beckons whilst always being one step away from actualization. This new volume complements the two earlier publications and I wait with considerable anticipation for the next volume to appear.

Notă biografică

Francis O'Gorman has written widely on English literature chiefly from 1780 to the present. His recent publications include editions of John Ruskin's Praeterita (Oxford World's Classics, 2012), Elizabeth Gaskell's Sylvia's Lovers (Oxford World's Classics, 2014), and Anthony Trollope's The Way We Live Now (Oxford World's Classics, 2016). Other recent books include The Cambridge Companion to John Ruskin (CUP, 2015), Worrying: A Literary and Cultural History (Bloomsbury, 2015), and the Twenty-First Century Oxford Authors Algernon Charles Swinburne (OUP, 2016). Francis O'Gorman, who is currently editing Ruskin's The Stones of Venice for OUP, was educated at the University of Oxford and is Saintsbury Professor of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh.