Language and Literature http://lal.sagepub.com/ Foregrounding and the sublime: Shelley in Chamonix David S. Miall Language and Literature 2007 16: 155 DOI: 10.1177/0963947007075982 The online version of this article can be found at: http://lal.sagepub.com/content/16/2/155 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com On behalf of: Poetics and Linguistics Association Additional services and information for Language and Literature can be found at: Email Alerts: http://lal.sagepub.com/cgi/alerts
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Spivey 1 While describing the story Frankenstein Percy Shelley wrote “ Treat a person ill‚ and he will become wicked.” (Stereotyping‚ Prejudice‚ and Discrimination p.3). In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein discrimination plays a large role. The theme has a lot to do with appearance and your acceptance in society. Weather the color of your skin‚ religion‚ or just the way you look alienation is all around us. In the Novel Victor Frankenstein creates a so called monster who is outcasted from
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<http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/lycidas/index.shtml> [accessed 8 February 2013] The Rape of The Lock and other poems: Alexander Pope‚ ed. by Martin Price (New York: New American Library‚ 2003) The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley‚ ed [ 2 ]. Harold Bloom‚ The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry (Oxford: Oxford University Press‚ 1997)‚ p. 5. [ 8 ]. The Cambridge Companion: Alexander Pope‚ ed. by Pat Rogers (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press‚ 2007)‚ p. 15. [ 9 ]. The
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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley In the Gothic novel Frankenstein‚ Mary Shelley integrates the rhetorical devices figurative language‚ imagery‚ and tone to impart the concept that the desire to acquire knowledge and emulate God will ultimately result in chaos and havoc that exceeds the boundaries of human restraint. I. Life of Mary Shelley / Characteristics of Gothic Literature A. Life of Mary Shelley 1. Eleven days after Mary Shelley’s birth‚ her mother‚ the famed author of A Vindication
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Ozymandias I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert... Near them‚ on the sand‚ Half sunk‚ a shattered visage lies‚ whose frown‚ And wrinkled lip‚ and sneer of cold command‚ Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive‚ stamped on these lifeless things‚ The
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motivation to persist toward some kind of goal. This goal can be something big and inspiring such as climbing up the social ladder like McCourt or something that everyone can relate to such as combating negative emotions the way Frankenstein’s monster or Shelley did. Humans can share their emotions through the words they say‚ the actions they take‚ or the things they create such as literary works or works of art. The poems‚ novels‚ movie‚ and song discussed were created by people with different cultural backgrounds
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Idea Frankenstein Context Bladerunner Context Doppelganger‚ defining qualities of humans and monsters • Doppelgangers confront • Ambiguity of narrative: M not real unless F story verified → connection between the two (Gothic) • Quest for knowledge‚ revenge‚ masculinity‚ eloquence‚ love of nature: M: “The very winds whispered in soothing accents‚ and maternal nature bade me weep no more” and F: “my spirits were elevated by the enchanting appearance of nature” • Humanity vs. ambition • Solidarity
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feminist‚ Mary Wollstonecraft. Mary’s mother died 11 days after her birth which left her father in charge of her upbringing for the next four years until he remarried his neighbour‚ Mary Jane Clairmont. In 1814 Mary had fallen in love with the married Percy Bysshe Shelly‚ one of her father’s political followers‚ and together with Mary’s stepsister‚ Claire Clairmont‚ they left for France and travelled through Europe. Their return to England brought with it the pregnancy of Mary and Shelly’s child and two
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reinterpretable. It can be a late v ersion of th e Faust my th‚ or an ear ly version of the mo dern myth of the mad scientist; the id on the ramp age‚ th e proletariat running amok‚ or what happens when a man tries to h ave a b aby without a woman. Mary Shelley invites speculation‚ and in the last g eneration 1 has been rew arded w ith a great d eal of it. How far we wedd ing guests h ave attended to what Frankenstein has to say and how far simp ly and unashamedly bound it to our own purposes is a moot
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Written in 1818 by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley‚ Frankenstein is widely considered to be among the novels that fully exemplify Romantic-era literary achievement. The Romantic movement is a general term used to denote the intellectual evolution in literature and the arts‚ primarily in 19th century Europe. Substantial facets of literary Romanticism include belief in the innate virtue of humans‚ the bounds of nature‚ as well as the polarity of human emotion‚ all of which are embodied in Shelley’s Frankenstein
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