The Unconscious in Coleridge
| Thesis title in Czech: | Nevědomí u Coleridge |
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| Thesis title in English: | The Unconscious in Coleridge |
| Key words: | S. T. Coleridge|nevědomí|imaginace|romantismus|poezie |
| English key words: | S. T. Coleridge|the unconscious|imagination|romanticism|poetry |
| Academic year of topic announcement: | 2016/2017 |
| Thesis type: | Bachelor's thesis |
| Thesis language: | angličtina |
| Department: | Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (21-UALK) |
| Supervisor: | PhDr. Zdeněk Beran, Ph.D. |
| Author: | hidden - assigned and confirmed by the Study Dept. |
| Date of registration: | 23.01.2017 |
| Date of assignment: | 23.01.2017 |
| Administrator's approval: | not processed yet |
| Confirmed by Study dept. on: | 01.02.2017 |
| Date and time of defence: | 04.09.2018 00:00 |
| Date of electronic submission: | 07.08.2018 |
| Date of proceeded defence: | 04.09.2018 |
| Submitted/finalized: | committed by student and finalized |
| Opponents: | Mgr. Miroslava Horová, Ph.D. |
| Guidelines |
| Coleridge's use of the supernatural and fantastic in his poetry invests his conception of imagination with a specific feature, which enables us to read his texts as dreams. The purpose of my thesis is to confront Coleridge's theoretical definition of imagination, as provided especially in his Biographia Literaria, with the way in which it is employed in his major poems. I will examine romantic understanding of dreams and its connection to imagination and, following Lowes´ interpretation of the practical application of Coleridge´s definition of imagination, compare this with Freud´s conception of the unconscious and dreams. The relevance of reached inferences will be verified in the context of chosen poems by Coleridge, such as The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan and Dejection, An Ode. |
| References |
| BOWRA, Cecil Maurice: The Romantic Imagination, London: Oxford University Press, 1961. COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor: The Major Works, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. ENGELL, John: The Creative Imagination: Enlightenment to Romanticism, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1981. FREUD, Sigmund: Výklad snů, Pelhřimov: Nová tiskárna, 2000. LOWES, John Livingston: The Road to Xanadu, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1927. |