The Metaphor of Memory in Wordsworth's Spots of Time

Lis Møller

doi:10.1111/oli.12051

The Metaphor of Memory in Wordsworth's Spots of Time

Institut for Kommunikation og Kultur - Litteraturhistorie

Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift/Konferencebidrag i tidsskrift /Bidrag til avis › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › peer review

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Abstract

On expanding the two-part Prelude of 1799 to The Prelude of 1805, Wordsworth made several important alterations to the two 'spots of time' childhood memories as he transferred them from Part One of the 1799 version to Book Eleventh of the 1805 version. One of these revisions concerns the poet's account of his choldhood experience of accidentally arriving at a spot where in former times a murderer had been hanged. In the 1799 version, a ridge shaped like a grave marks the site of execution. In later versions this grave-shaped mound is replaced by an inscription: the murderer's name carved on the turf. The insertion of the motif of the inscription turns the scene of execution into a literal site of memory, but it also functions as a metaphorical representation of the phenomenon of memory. The paper explores the implication of the inscription as metaphor of memory in a reading of the two spots.

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Tidsskrift	Orbis Litterarum
Vol/bind	69
Nummer	2
Sider (fra-til)	94-107
Antal sider	14
ISSN	0105-7510
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1111/oli.12051
Status	Udgivet - 2014

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10.1111/oli.12051

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Modernitet og kulturtransfer
Møller, L. (Deltager)
20/12/2014 → …
Projekter: Projekt › Forskning
Romantikken som identitetsskaber - i fortid, nutid og fremtid
Grand, K. L. (Deltager) & Møller, L. (Deltager)
01/12/2011 → 01/12/2014
Projekter: Projekt › Forskning

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