Robert Browning's Romantic Irony in The Ring and the Book

• Author(s): Patricia Diane Rigg,
• Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
• Pages: 153
• ISBN_10: 0838637736
  ISBN_13: 9780838637739
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh , Literary Criticism / Poetry , Poetry / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh , True Crime / Murder / General ,

Description:... "In the framing monologues, the Poet seems to blur the distinction between representing (embodying or symbolizing) and re-presenting (offering anew) the truth-telling process that shapes the narrative of the poem. Rigg's premise is twofold: first, Browning tells "a truth obliquely," deliberately using language to subvert truth and to reveal it simultaneously; second, truth is linked not to a fixed text but to authorial and reader production of that text. In the language of Romantic irony, The Ring and the Book is "organized chaos," revealing history in terms of "becoming" rather than "being" and revealing historical truth as process rather than as product."--BOOK JACKET.