Open Access“A Logic of Its Own”: Repetition in Coleridge’s “Christabel”
Author(s) -
Debra Channick
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
romanticism and victorianism on the net
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1916-1441
DOI - 10.7202/018144ar
Subject(s) - repetition (rhetorical device) , poetry , creativity , philosophy , literature , psychology , linguistics , art , social psychology
This essay argues that Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s notoriously disjointed poem “Christabel” displays a consistent concern with repetition: thematically, formally, and psychologically. By looking at the pervasiveness of echoes, I show how “Christabel” produces a coherent exploration of repetition, first in terms of paralysis, and later in terms of creativity