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Article: Wordsworthian Errancies: The Poetics of Cultural Dismemberment.
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- Criticism
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- September 22, 1995
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by David Collings. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. Pp. xii + 287. $39.95.
If one requirement of canonical longevity is the author's capacity to speak to the critical concerns of whatever age in which his or her texts may reside, David Collings's Wordsworthian Errancies gives clear signs that Wordsworth will be with us well into the next millennium. Drawing on a wide range of contemporary cultural and literary theory, as well as current (and not so current) Wordsworth critics, David Collings shows how many of Wordsworth's most discussed texts anticipate many of today's critical trends, in particular Lacanian psychoanalysis, cultural ...