Don Juan In Context
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Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Yellowed
Byron's Don Juan is one of the most audacious and virtuosic poems in the English language, and Jerome J. McGann's Don Juan in Context is the definitive scholarly guide to understanding its radical brilliance. McGann presents a meticulous and authoritative analysis of Byron's epic satirical poem, situating it within the rich intellectual, cultural, and literary currents of the Romantic era, arguing that the work cannot be fully understood without grappling with the complex web of historical forces that shaped it. McGann's critical method is both rigorous and revelatory, as he instructs readers to look beyond the poem's ironic surface to uncover its profound engagement with questions of truth, freedom, and artistic integrity. His prose is sharp and incisive, illuminating how Byron wielded digression, irony, and self-conscious narration as weapons against the moral and aesthetic pieties of his age. For scholars and devoted readers of Romanticism alike, this work remains an indispensable lens through which Don Juan reveals its most enduring and subversive secrets.
Author: Jerome J. Mcgann
Format: Hardback
Genre: Literary theory
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Yellowed
Byron's Don Juan is one of the most audacious and virtuosic poems in the English language, and Jerome J. McGann's Don Juan in Context is the definitive scholarly guide to understanding its radical brilliance. McGann presents a meticulous and authoritative analysis of Byron's epic satirical poem, situating it within the rich intellectual, cultural, and literary currents of the Romantic era, arguing that the work cannot be fully understood without grappling with the complex web of historical forces that shaped it. McGann's critical method is both rigorous and revelatory, as he instructs readers to look beyond the poem's ironic surface to uncover its profound engagement with questions of truth, freedom, and artistic integrity. His prose is sharp and incisive, illuminating how Byron wielded digression, irony, and self-conscious narration as weapons against the moral and aesthetic pieties of his age. For scholars and devoted readers of Romanticism alike, this work remains an indispensable lens through which Don Juan reveals its most enduring and subversive secrets.