Год выпуска: 2012 Автор: Mehrdad Gholami Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 84 ISBN: 9783659178757
Описание
In spite of being regarded as a difficult and controversial term, one thing unanimously agreed upon about Romanticism is its ?endowment with drastic and radical changes and transitions; French ?Revolution, American Revolution, Industrial Revolution, Declaration of ?Rights of Man are but few to name. During this period, the universe was no ?longer a stable place for man to occupy a middle position in; man was not ?as important as he used to be; the structure of society was being transformed into ?mass society; poets and artists were not indifferent and began, in their turn, to react to ?these great shifts and transitions; from among many diverse responses ?given to these enormous phenomena, this book investigates ?Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”. Regarding ?the poem as a ritual and mainly applying Victor Turner’s theory of ritual ?and liminality, this book shows in what manner "The Rime" ?represents Coleridge’s sociopolitical stance toward the holistic impact of...