Imagination, Metaphor and Mythopeiea in Wordsworth, Shelley and Keats

By: Karadas, Firat

The book studies metaphor, myth and their imaginative aspects in the poetry of William Wordsworth, Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats. Relying on Kantian, Romantic, Neo-Kantian and modern ideas of imagination, metaphor and myth, the book proposes that imagination is an inherently metaphorizing and mythologizing faculty because the act of perception is an act of giving form to natural phenomena and seeing similitude in dissimilitude, which are basically...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3631582366
• ISBN13: 9783631582367
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"