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Reading The Eve of St.Agnes: The Multiples of Complex Literary Transaction
Author(s): Jack Stillinger (Author)
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication Date: October 14, 1999
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 200 pages
- ISBN-10: 0195130227
- ISBN-13: 9780195130225
Book Description
Using the 180-year history of Keats'sEve of St. Agnes as a basis for theorizing about the reading process, Stillinger's book explores the nature and whereabouts of "meaning" in complex works. A proponent of authorial intent, Stillinger argues a theoretical compromise between author and reader, applying a theory of interpretive democracy that includes the endlessly multifarious reader's response as well as Keats's guessed-at intent. Stillinger also considers the process of constructing meaning, and posits an answer to why Keats's work is considered canonical, and why it is still being read and admired.
