Reading the elements of the romantic psyche in Percy Shelley’s The Witch of Atlas

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dc.contributor.authorAktar, Merve
dc.contributor.authorAktar, Merve
dc.contributor.otherİnsan ve Toplum Bilimleri Fakültesi, Karşılaştırmalı Edebiyat Bölümü
dc.date.accessioned2020-05-29T13:12:18Z
dc.date.available2020-05-29T13:12:18Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.departmentİHÜ, İnsan ve Toplum Bilimleri Fakültesi, Karşılaştırmalı Edebiyat Bölümü
dc.description.abstractImagination, as in Coleridge’s mystical-philosophical “eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM” 1 , is a primary element of Romantic poetry, whose material substance is, I claim, the Spenserian romance form. They combine to form a composite, the Romantic psyche, that I close read in Percy Shelley’s The Witch of Atlas. This choice rests on Shelley’s representative position among his peers for having written the most fanciful poem that methodologizes this “esemplastic” 2 element. The titular Witch and her creation, the Hermaphrodite, allude to the story of False Florimell’s creation in Book III of The Faery Queene; yet, Shelley literalizes the metaphor of the “Imagination … (as) heady romance--an inspiring force, a dangerous seduction,” 3 but provocatively overturns its negative connotations. I read the Witch as spirit and the Hermaphrodite as her imagination, through which “She did unite [friends torn apart] again with visions clear/Of deep affection and of truth sincere” (LXXVII, 663-4). I illustrate how the “dilation” 4 of the romance mode of the poem, that contains no forward thrust and no conclusion, supports Shelley’s conceptualization of the Romantic psyche as made of the elements that in a very Blakean sense “unite again with visions clear” the hitherto fragmentary, conflicting meanings available through reason. Patricia Parker’s concept principally guides my close reading, and the leads me, and, I hope my listeners, to trace how the frustrations of “unawakened eyes” (XL, 361-68) is essential to the recovery of lost vision— the totality of experience.
dc.identifier.citationAktar, M. (2019). Reading the elements of the romantic psyche in Percy Shelley’s The Witch of Atlas. 27th Annual Conference Romantic Elements, Chicago, USA, 8-11 August 2019.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12154/1168
dc.institutionauthorAktar, Merve
dc.institutionauthorid0000-0001-9600-6076
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherNorth American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR)
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dc.relation.ispartof27th Annual Conference Romantic Elements, 8-11 August 2019
dc.relation.publicationcategoryKonferans Öğesi - Uluslararası - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
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dc.subjectShelley
dc.subjectSpenserian
dc.subjectRomance
dc.subjectWitch of Atlas
dc.subjectPsyche
dc.titleReading the elements of the romantic psyche in Percy Shelley’s The Witch of Atlas
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