The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor; Fry, Paul H.

• ISBN13: 9780312112233
• ISBN10: 0312112238
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-03-15
• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

Summary

This edition of Coleridge's classic Romantic poem reprints the 1798 and 1817 texts along with critical essays, newly commissioned or revised for students, that read "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" from 5 contemporary critical perspectives: reader response, Marxist, psychoanalytic, deconstructionist, and new historical. An additional essay demonstrates how these various approaches can be combined. The text and essays are complemented by introductions (biographical and critical, with bibliographies) and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms.

Author Biography

Paul H. Fry is William Lampson Professor of English and Master of Ezra Stiles College at Yale University Susan Eilenberg is an associate professor of English at the State University of New York -- Buffalo Frances Ferguson is professor of English and the humanities and director of the Center for Research on Culture and Literature at Johns Hopkins University Raimonda Modiano is Lockwood Professor of Humanities at the University of Washington David Simpson is Professor and G.B. Needham Fellow in English at the University of California, Davis Anne Williams is a professor of English at the University of Georgia

Table of Contents

About the Series	p. v
About This Volume	p. vii
"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner": The 1798 and 1817 Texts
Biographical and Historical Contexts	p. 3
The 1798 and 1817 Texts	p. 25
"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner": A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism
A Critical History of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"	p. 79
A Critical History: A Selected Bibliography	p. 89
Reader-Response Criticism and "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"	p. 97
What Is Reader-Response Criticism?	p. 97
Reader-Response Criticism: A Selected Bibliography	p. 109
A Reader-Response Perspective
Coleridge and the Deluded Reader: "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"	p. 113
Marxist Criticism and "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"	p. 131
What Is Marxist Criticism?	p. 131
Marxist Criticism: A Selected Bibliography	p. 145
A Marxist Perspective
How Marxism Reads "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"	p. 148
The New Historicism and "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"	p. 168
What Is the New Historicism?	p. 168
The New Historicism: A Selected Bibliography	p. 182
A New Historicist Perspective
Sameness or Difference? Historicist Readings of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"	p. 187
Psychoanalytic Criticism and "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"	p. 220
What Is Psychoanalytic Criticism?	p. 220
Psychoanalytic Criticism: A Selected Bibliography	p. 233
A Psychoanalytic Perspective
An I for an Eye: "Spectral Persecution" in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"	p. 238
Deconstruction and "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"	p. 261
What Is Deconstruction?	p. 261
Deconstruction: A Selected Bibliography	p. 278
A Deconstructive Perspective
Voice and Ventriloquy in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"	p. 282
Combining Critical Perspectives on the "Rime"	p. 315
Wordsworth in the "Rime"	p. 319
Glossary of Critical and Theoretical Terms	p. 343
About the Contributors	p. 356
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