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Sto caricando le informazioni... Keats's Odes: A Lover's Discourse (edizione 2021)di Professor Anahid Nersessian (Autore)
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"Anahid Nersessian gathers Keats's six Great Odes and comments on them in essays at once bold, speculative, and personal. There are many lovers in this "lover's discourse," but the main ones are Keats and Nersessian herself. Each ode emerges here as an expression and an inducement of love--sometimes for humanity in general, sometimes for a specific person. This is literary criticism as passion work, close reading as intimacy, with memoir occasionally breaking to the surface with hints of heartbreak and an absent lover. For many younger readers today, it is difficult to love canonical literature when, like Nersessian herself, one belongs to ethnic and sexual categories that were historically excluded from its purview. Yet every year, students and other readers fall hard for Keats, despite lives so distant from the world of the English Regency. There is what one critic long ago called a "lovableness" to this poet who died of tuberculosis on 23 February 1821, at age 25, exiled in rooms beside the Spanish Steps in Rome. Nersessian shows why we love him still, and why his odes continue to speak powerfully to our own desires"-- Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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 Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni...GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)821.7Literature English English poetry 1800-1837, romantic periodClassificazione LCVotoMedia: (4.33)
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While I had read these before, a few of them multiple times, my emphasis as both a student and faculty was primarily prose, so working through them here was a delight for me. I don't think previous readings included much of what Nersessian brings to these readings so I was intrigued to read them again from a different perspective (though admittedly I don't recall much about my previous impressions).
What truly brought these to life and made them (both the odes and the essays) impactful was the manner in which the analysis/engagement brought Keats into the present day as well as into Nersessian's personal life. The open-heartedness with which they are understood and presented allows us to acknowledge problematic aspects while still admitting an attachment (a love) that we might not have been able to do before.
I don't know what interpretations hold sway currently so I can't speak to how these essays compare to other scholarship, but I do know that even a lot of the historical/biographical background is new to me and absolutely helped to support the readings.
While a familiarity with Keats will certainly be a positive for any reader I would stop short of saying that one needs to be intimately familiar with these odes. They are included for us to read and refer to while reading the essays and the essays themselves are wonderfully written and very accessible if one wants to make a small effort. Definitely recommend for those who study or write poetry as well as those like myself who simply enjoy reading and thinking about poetry. This one will get several more readings from me.
Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via NetGalley. (