Towards a poetics of becoming [Elektronische Ressource] : Samuel Taylor Coleridge's and John Keats's aesthetics between idealism and deconstruction / eingereicht von Charles Ngiewih Teke

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• Publié par: universitat_regensburg
• Publié le: 01 janvier 2006
• Nombre de lectures: 15
• Langue: English
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Towards a Poetics of Becoming:
Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s and John Keats’s Aesthetics Between Idealism
and Deconstruction





Dissertation zur Erlangung der Doktorwürde
der Philosophischen Fakultät IV (Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften)
der Universität Regensburg





eingereicht von

Charles NGIEWIH TEKE
Alfons-Auer-Str. 4
93053 Regensburg

Februar 2004


Erstgutachter: Prof. Dr. Rainer EMIG
Zweitgutachter: Prof. Dr. Dieter A. BERGER







1 TABLE OF CONTENTS
PAGE
DEDICATION..............................................................................................................I
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS...........................................................................................II
ABSTRACT...............................................................................................................VI
English........................................................................................................................VI
German......................................................................................................................VII
French......................................................................................................................VIII

INTRODUCTION
Aims of the Study.........................................................................................................1
On the Relationship Between S. T. Coleridge and J. Keats..........................................5
Certain Critical Terms.................................................................................................14
Romanticism...............................................................................................................14
First and Second Generation Romantics.....................................................................15
The Concept of the Imagination.................................................................................17
Reality and Truth........................................................................................................19
Beauty.........................................................................................................................22
The Creative Process..................................................................................................22
Romantic Idealism and Romantic Visionary Criticism..............................................23
The Poetics of Becoming............................................................................................25
Constructive Deferral..................................................................................................25
Deconstruction............................................................................................................26
Statement of Hypothesis.............................................................................................27
Chapter Synopsis........................................................................................................28

CHAPTER ONE
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE AND STATEMENT OF
RESEARCH
Introduction................................................................................................................35
The Dynamics of Spirit..............................................................................................37
The Psychological Periphery of Self..........................................................................70
Historicising Romanticism.........................................................................................85
Subverting Visionary Romanticism: (De)Construction.............................................98
Statement of Research..............................................................................................118

CHAPTER TWO
S. T. COLERIDGE: METAPHYSICAL ECOLOGY: NATURE AND THE
TRANSCENDENTAL REALM
Introduction..............................................................................................................124
Existing Notions on Nature and Spirituality Prior to the Romantic Period.............129
Coleridge’s Quest for Distinction: His Metaphysics of Nature and the Philosophy of
Becoming.................................................................................................................138
Coleridge and German Idealism and Romanticism: The Influences........................147
The Search for Unity in a Heterogeneous Universe and the Philosophy of
Becoming.......................................................…......................................................162
Praxis: Poetry, Philosophy, Spiritual Ecstasy and Becoming..................................174
The Philosophical Dispositions of Irony, Fragmentation and Complexity..............186


2 CHAPTER THREE
S. T. COLERIDGE: PSYCHOLOGICAL INTROSPECTION AND
RETROSPECTION: THE SELF IN TIME
Introduction..............................................................................................................210
The Myth of Childhood in English Romanticism....................................................213
The Psychological Bases of Coleridge’s Embattled Psychic Life...........................221
Coleridge’s Self-Written Life: Poetic and Epistolary Self-Mirroring and the
Philosophy of Becoming..........................................................................................229
The Psycho-Dynamics of Self-Definition and Self-Reconstruction with the Other246
The Psychology of Narcissism: A Characteristic Trait in
Coleridge?................................................................................................................262

CHAPTER FOUR
KEATS’S NATURE-CONSCIOUSNESS AND MYTHOPOETIC
EXPERIENCE: SELF-SEEKING FOR AESTHETIC INDENTITY
Keats’s Nature-Consciousness and Becoming... .....................................................269
Keats’s Mythopoetic Consciousness........................................................................282
Theoretical Considerations.......................................................................................285
The Reception of Myth in English Romanticism.....................................................291
Keats’s Myth-Revitalising and Myth-Making: Towards Achieving Aesthetic
Identity.....................................................................................................................304
Mythology and Ekphrasis: Visual Arts and Poetic Choices....................................332

CHAPTER FIVE
KEATS AND THE GNOSTIC TRADITION: INNER SELF-SEARCHING
AND BECOMING
Introduction..............................................................................................................339
Towards a Definition: Gnosticism as a Mystical Clue to Self-knowledge and Self-
redemption................................................................................................................346
Western Christian Orthodoxy and Eastern Mystical Traditions..............................361
Keats’s Gnostic Scheme: The Inner Search for a New Path and Prophetic Self-
elevation...................................................................................................................371
The Gnostic Implications of Keats’s Philosophy of Death......................................410
A Realistic Medium or a Poetico-Philosophical Speculation?.................................415

CHAPTER SIX
THE EROTIC AND SPIRITUAL MOTIVE: THE FEMALE IMAGE IN
COLERIDGE’S AND KEATS’S POETIC EXPERIENCE AND BECOMING
Introduction...............................................................................................................421
The Present Absence and the Psycho-Dynamics of Sublimation.............................426
Decentring Stereotypes: Prefigurative Modern Sexuality in Coleridge...................446
Eroticism and Psycho-Spirituality: The Keatsian Dimension..................................457
CONCLUSION.........................................................................................................478

BIBLIOGRAPHY.....................................................................................................489




3 DEDICATION

To the memory of Professor John Akwe LAMBO and all the prematurely fallen intellectual
and academic heroes.
































I ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The present state of this research endeavour is a result of the contribution of number of
persons and institutions who deserve to be acknowledged. My indebtedness first goes
to my supervisor Prof. Dr. Rainer Emig for his meticulous and rigorous handling of the
work. His supervision has been immense and invaluable. Not only has he sharpened
my critical insight, straightened and strengthened my academic and intellectual
convictions and ambitions, but he has equally increase