Shelley and His Readers: Beyond Paranoid Politics

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University of Missouri Press, 1999 - 278 páginas

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Introduction
1
Paranoid Politics
13
Contagion and Personification in Queen
58
Reforming the Reviewers
109
The Elegiac Reception of Adonais
151
Notes
197
Works Cited
259
Index
273
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Página 206 - Whereas the symbol postulates the possibility of an identity or identification, allegory designates primarily a distance in relation to its own origin, and, renouncing the nostalgia and the desire to coincide, it establishes its language in the void of this temporal difference.

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