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"Can She the Bodiless Dead Espy?": Coleridge and the Hermeneutics of Ghost Seeing.

  • Published In: ELH, 2024, v. 91, n. 4. P. 1167 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Thomas, Alex 3 of 3

Abstract

This article argues for a revised understanding of Coleridge's aesthetics of the preternatural by analyzing them through the lens of his long-standing engagement with the phenomenology and hermeneutics of ghost-seeing. Focusing first on critical works such as The Friend, The Statesman's Manual , and Coleridge's notes on Hamlet , I contend that Coleridge articulates an account of visionary experience which stresses the primacy of the interpretive act. The article concludes with a reading of Christabel as a meditation on the hermeneutics of apparitions in which the interpretive crisis of ghost-seeing facilitates a necromantic sociality interpenetrated by the presences of the dead. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Additional Information

  • Source:ELH. 2024/12, Vol. 91, Issue 4, p1167
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:Literature and Writing
  • Publication Date:2024
  • ISSN:0013-8304
  • DOI:10.1353/elh.2024.a945317
  • Accession Number:181275351
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