search for books and compare prices
Tables of Contents for The Theory of Inspiration
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgements
vi
Introduction
1
13
Orientations: the space of composition
14
26
Enthusiasmos: archaic Greece and Plato's Ion
40
21
CASE STUDIES
Enthusiasm and enlightenment
61
31
The fantasy crowd I: `Power' in Wordsworth's The Prelude
92
23
Infinite inspiration: Holderlin and Schelling
115
28
The fantasy crowd 2: Shelley's A Defence of Poetry
143
27
Inspiration and the romantic body: Nietzsche and H.D.
170
21
Surrealism, inspiration and the mediations of chance in Andre Breton
191
31
Octavio Paz and Renga: the dispersal of inspiration?
222
16
Contradictory passion: inspiration in Blanchot's The Space of Literature (1955)
238
21
Dictation by heart: Derrida's `Che cos'e la poesia?' and Celan's notion of the Atemwende
259
23
Conclusion
282
3
Bibliography: Selected Secondary Material
285
10
Index
295