The Poetics of Unremembered Acts: Reading, Lyric, Pedagogy

Index

159 Abrams, M. H., 120n44 address, 11, 13, 31, 33, 56; direct, 12, 92, 109, 111; expression and, 109; in “Isabella,” 94–95, 97–100, 103; lyric, 10, 51, 97–100; meaning and, 19–20, 55; “secret addressee,” 138n40; by “voice” in text, 30; word-of-mouth transmission, 14 address, in Gray’s “Elegy,” 55, 56–57, 71– 73, 92, 98, 135n7; animating power of tropes and, 68–70, 138n35; critical reception of poem and, 59; Stonecutter Controversy and, 59–60, 64–65, 135nn12–13 advertising, 100 Aesthetic Ideology (de Man), 120n40 “Against Theory” (Knapp and Michaels), 126n14 Agamben, Giorgio, 77, 101, 144n31 Aickin, Joseph, 127n16 Allegories of Reading (de Man), 31, 119n37 analogy, 3 Anatomy of Criticism (Frye), 97–98 anonymity, 62, 72, 136n20 anthropomorphism, 58, 114n6, 119n38; in Gray’s “Elegy,” 67, 69; as restorative figure, 138n38 “Anthropomorphism and Trope in the Lyric” (de Man), 30 apostrophe, 20, 33, 91, 119n38; animating power of, 99; etymology of, 98; as foundational to lyric poetry, 98–99; in Gray’s “Elegy,” 58, 63, 68–69, 70, 136n21, 138n35; in “Isabella,” 94, 96, 104; in “Simon Lee,” 79–80, 81, 83, 84, 86, 87 “Apostrophe, Animation, Abortion” (Johnson), 68 appreciation, 4 Apter, Emily, 108 Averill, James, 80 ballads, 79, 86 Baudelaire, Charles, 91 Beaumont, Sir George, 1 Bennett, Andrew, 142n11 Bennington, Geoffrey, 41 Best, Stephen, 108–9 Beyond the Pleasure Principle (Freud), 88, 117n27 Bialostosky, Don, 83 Blanchot, Maurice, 74, 117n28 Blasing, Mutlu Konuk, 29 Bloom, Allan, 47 Boccaccio, Giovanni, 95, 96, 97, 99 Booker, Emma E., 110 books: hatred of, 39, 42; nature and, 1, 2–3, 114n4 Bower, Alan, 133n2 Bronson, Bertrand H., 64–65, 70, 71–72 Brooks, Cleanth, 57, 59, 63, 64, 136n13 Brower, Reuben, 115n14 Burt, E. S., 147n16 Bush, George W., 106, 110 Cage, John, 30 capitalism, 100, 143n19 Caruth, Cathy, 117n27, 118n32 Castellano, Katey, 145n38 Cavell, Stanley, 122n47 Celan, Paul, 146n12 Chandler, James, 143n16 Chase, Cynthia, 114n5, 121n46 chiasmus, 36, 43, 48 civil order, transformation of, 37 Clarke, Edward and Mary, 128n19 close reading, 4, 5, 115n14 Index 160 Index cognition, 8, 13, 56, 93, 104; gap in, 9; phenomenal appearance and, 121n45; understanding and, 92 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 8–9, 137n24 Collins, Wilkie, 131n8 communication, 29, 68, 107, 138n41; absence of addressee and, 20; Enlightenment pedagogy and, 32; independence of words from goal of, 25; negation of, 76; rapid communication of intelligence, 76–77 Confessions (Rousseau), 8, 39, 44, 48; chance utterance and, 31–32; on forgetting of learning to read, 7, 111 consciousness, 88, 104, 110, 112, 142n20 “critical reading,” 10, 94, 108, 111, 112 Crusoe, Robinson (fictional character), 34 Culler, Jonathan, 68, 98, 99, 127n14, 136n21 cultural studies, 4 Danby, John F., 83, 84 “Dead Beggar, The” (Smith), 79 Dear Reader (Stewart), 141n11 death, 14, 76, 83; dead brought back to life, 61, 70; marking of loss, 62–64, 72, 73; mourning and melancholy in relation to, 101–2; in obscurity, 134n5, 134n6; of reader, 100; reading and, 119n38; speaking with the dead, 65, 71–73, 100; “yawning tomb” as deathin -life, 102–5, 145n38 Decameron (Boccaccio), 95, 143n21 deconstruction, 5, 115n16, 116n18 “Deconstruction, Feminism, and Pedagogy” (Johnson), 6 Defense of Poetry, A (Fry), 72, 120n41 Defoe, Daniel, 34, 43 de Man, Paul, 30, 114n6, 143n27; on animating tropes, 99–100; on definition of text, 119n37; on prosopopoeia, 11; on reading prior to theory, 136n13; on Rousseau’s Confessions, 31; on speaking voice of poetry, 71; on teaching, 6, 116n20 Derrida, Jacques, 19–20, 22, 102, 129n20, 132n12, 146n15 De Selincourt, Ernest, 78 dialectics, 4, 46, 64, 145n38 Dialogues (Rousseau), 44 die-rolling game, of Locke, 7, 8, 9, 106, 117n27, 130n31; “chance-writing” and, 23–24, 25; deception involved in, 19; history of similar pedagogical experiments, 127n16; language undisclosed to consciousness, 10; learning as play instead of work, 24–25; lyric poetry and, 20–21, 29–30; mechanical aspect of language and, 28; philosophies of language and, 129n20; Rousseau’s ridicule of, 32–33; signifiers and, 51; voiced utterance and, 11 distant reading, 4 Dolar, Mladen, 146n2 education, 1, 25, 105, 110; experience and, 50; lyric poetry and, 13; moral, 40; necessity of history to, 42–44; philosophy of, 128n19; practical treatises on, 7; romanticism and, 122n47; treatises on, 35, 55 elegy, 63, 137n24; absence of proper elegy, 60; Orphic, 62; resistance to loss, 61 “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” (Gray), 7, 55–56, 91, 102, 107, 111; animating power of tropes in, 66–71; epitaph, 56, 65, 72...