The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Edited by Paul H. Fry - First Edition, 1999 from Macmillan Student Store

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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

First  Edition©1999  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Edited by Paul H. Fry

ISBN:9780312112233

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Containing both the 1798 and 1817 versions of Coleridge's Romantic poem, this critical version of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner features essays which take on five contemporary critical perspectives: reader response, Marxist, psychoanalytic, deconstructionist, and new historical.

Table of Contents

PART I."THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER": THE 1798 AND 1817 TEXTS
    
    Biographical and Historical Contexts
    The 1798 and 1817 Texts
    
PART II. "THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER": A CASE STUDY IN CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM
    
  A Critical History of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
    A Critical History: A Selected Bibliography
    
  Reader-Response Criticism and "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
    What Is Reader-Response Criticism?
    Reader-Response Criticism: A Selected Bibliography
    A Reader-Response Perspective:
       Frances Ferguson, Coleridge and Deluded Reader: "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
    
  Marxist Criticism and "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
    What Is Marxist Criticism?
    Marxist Criticism: A Selected Bibliography
    A Marxist Perspective:
       David Simpson, How Marxism Reads "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
    
  New Historicism and "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
    What Is New Historicism?
    New Historicism: A Selected Bibliography
    A New Historicist Perspective
       Raimonda Modiano, Sameness or Difference? Historicist Readings of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
    
  Psychoanalytic Criticism and "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
    What Is Psychoanalytic Criticism?
    Psychoanalytic Criticism: A Selected Bibliography
    A Psychoanalytic Perspective:
       Anne Williams, An I for an Eye: "Spectral Persecution" in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
    
  Deconstruction and "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
    What Is Deconstruction?
    Deconstruction: A Selected Bibliography
    A Deconstructive Perspective:
       Susan Eilenberg, Voice and Ventriloquy in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
    
  Combining Critical Perspectives on the "Rime"
       Paul H. Fry, Wordsworth in the "Rime"
    
  Glossary of Critical and Theoretical Terms
    
  About the Contributors

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Paul H. Fry

Paul H. Fry is a William Lampson Professor of English and Master of Ezra Stiles College at Yale University.  His numerous scholarly articles and books on Romantic poetry and literary theory include The Poet's Calling in the English Ode (1980); The Reach of Criticism: Method and Perception in Literary Theory (1983); William Empson: Prophet against Sacrifice (1991); and A Defense of Poetry: Reflections on the Occasion of Writing (1995).  He is currently at work on a study of William Wordsworth.