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Stuart Peterfreund. Shelley Among Others: The Play of the Intertext and the Idea of Language.(Book review)

Studies in Romanticism,  December, 2006  by Tetreault, Ronald

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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.

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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 ...

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