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Article: Stuart Peterfreund. Shelley Among Others: The Play of the Intertext and the Idea of Language.(Book review)
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- Studies in Romanticism
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- December 22, 2006
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Stuart Peterfreund. Shelley Among Others: The Play of the Intertext and the Idea of Language. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. Pp. 406. $55.00.
Stuart Peterfreund has written a courageous book. Anyone who remembers deconstruction cannot help hearing the shade of Paul de Man whispering "metaphor is error" (Allegories of Reading 151) at every stage of Peterfreund's argument. And yet Peterfreund persists in talking about what he calls "the inspired and inspiring language of poetry" (231). In Shelley Among Others, he undertakes a vigorous and theoretically-informed rehabilitation of metaphor, at the same time as he traces Shelley's negotiations ...