Eyes Wide Shut: Re-Envisioning Christina Rossetti's Poetry and Prose

{"ID":4232427,"post_title":"Eyes Wide Shut: Re-Envisioning Christina Rossetti's Poetry and Prose","title":"Eyes Wide Shut: Re-Envisioning Christina Rossetti's Poetry and Prose","post_content":"Christina Rossetti\u2019s poetry and prose, written in 19th-century England, deals with the human fixation on appearance. Her belief in the Tractarian precepts of the Oxford Movement, primarily expostulated by John Keble and John Newman, transformed Rossetti\u2019s outlook on perception. Her association with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood also influenced her obsession with sight and insight. The focus of Melanie Hanson\u2019s study is the re-envisionment of Christina Rossetti\u2019s poetry and prose from three theoretical perspectives: deconstructionist theory, feminist literary theory, and Marxist literary criticism. The first part of her book explores Christina Rossetti\u2019s fascination with Plato\u2019s eye of the mind in The Allegory of the Cave. Rossetti believed that the physical eyes must be shut so that the eye of the mind could be wide open, creating in-sight. She connected the eye of the mind to her Tractarian religious beliefs. In her writings, the \u2019eye of the mind also relates to Eastern religious philosophy. The \u2019eye of the mind sees an alternate perception of reality. Rossetti was not only obsessed with the gaze and the object of the gaze in her writing, but she also re-fashioned John Milton\u2019s Eve from Paradise Lost into her own vision of Eve and the creation cycle in Rossetti\u2019s poetry and prose. Part 2 asserts that the author, Melanie Hanson, believes Rossetti\u2019s re-envisionment of the figure of Eve in Rossetti\u2019s writing contributes to the emergence of feminist literary criticism in the 20th century. Although Christina Rossetti was not a feminist, her poetry and prose have been examined by post-modern feminists concerning psycholanlytic and historic issues. Rossetti\u2019s envisionment of the consumed consumer is the subject of part 3, in which Marxist literary theory is used to examine Rossetti\u2019s epic poem Goblin Market. Previous literary criticism discussions concerning Rossetti\u2019s poetic and prose observations on the eye lack a concentrated examination of Rossetti\u2019s interest in Plato, especially Plato\u2019s \u201ceye of the mind\u201d, and Plato\u2019s influence on Rossetti. Hanson\u2019s book addresses this groundbreaking area of study. Her book is aimed at Christina Rossetti scholars and English Victorian literature afficianados who wish to explore Rossetti\u2019s contribution to the literary canon from new angles in literary criticism.","image":"https:\/\/c5-static.dodax.com\/de-ch\/dp\/9MIFJSVNF7S-cc42c03d8d-175-175-8251425466759789261","url":"https:\/\/www.vergleiche.ch\/unterhaltung\/product\/eyes-wide-shut-re-envisioning-christina-rossettis-poetry-and-prose\/","min_price":0,"low_price_merchant_id":0,"deeplink":"","ean":9783838203652,"brand":"undefined"}