Shelley's Process

Shelley's Process Synopsis

In this set of thorough and revisionary readings of Percy Bysshe Shelley's best-known writings in verse and prose, Hogle argues that the logic and style in all these works are governed by a movement in every thought, memory, image, or word-pattern whereby each is seen and sees itself in terms of a radically different form. For any specified entity or figure to be known for "e;what it is,"e; it must be reconfigured by and in terms of another one at another level (which must then be dislocated itself). In so delineating Shelley's "e;process,"e; Hogle reveals the revisionary procedure in the poet's various texts and demonstrates the powerful effects of "e;radical transference"e; in Shelley's visions of human possibility.