TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mirosława Modrzewska
AU  - Maria Fengler
PY  - 2020
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2364-2882
SN  - 9783631805367
TI  - Byron: Reality, Fiction and Madness
DO  - 10.3726/b16287
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1058625
N2  - This book explores the amorphous, fragmented and digressive world of George Gordon Byron’s poetic works, which are pervaded by the themes of change, mutability, deformation and transgression, often presented or described as madness. The blurring of the border between fiction and reality is a matter of the author’s decisions concerning both his life and his texts, and a conscious process of construction and self-fashioning. It is also a recurring epistemological theme in Byron’s works, which make take the form of　narrative dis-orientation and the dismantling of easy cultural pre-conceptions. The Authors study Byron’s artistic quixotism and his pursuit of creative freedom which reveals itself in the Romantic irony, digressiveness and self-awareness of his writings.
KW  - Romantic poetry, Romantic drama, Fictional reality, Romantic biography, Narrative ambiguity, Epistemological fiction
LA  - English
ER  -