Higgins, Valerie

Theune, Faculty Advisor, Michael

English

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Illinois Wesleyan UniversityDigital Commons @ IWUJohn Wesley Powell Student ResearchConference 2008, 19th Annual JWP ConferenceApr 12th, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM"Rills: a Map of a Misreading"Valerie HigginsIllinois Wesleyan UniversityMichael Theune, Faculty AdvisorIllinois Wesleyan UniversityFollow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/jwprcThis Event is brought to you for free and open access by The Ames Library, the Andrew W. Mellon Center for Curricular and FacultyDevelopment, the Office of the Provost and the Office of the President. It has been accepted for inclusion in Digital Commons @ IWU bythe faculty at Illinois Wesleyan University. For more information, please contact digitalcommons@iwu.edu.©Copyright is owned by the author of this document.Higgins, Valerie and Theune, Faculty Advisor, Michael, ""Rills: a Map of a Misreading"" (2008). John Wesley PowellStudent Research Conference. 3.http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/jwprc/2008/oralpres4/3THE JOHN WESLEY POWELL STUDENT RESEARCH CONFERENCE - APRIL 2008 Oral Presentation 04.2 " RILLS: A MAP OF A MISREADING" Valerie Higgins and Michael Theune* English Department, Illinois Wesleyan University "Rills: A Map of a Misreading" is the ftrst in a collection of essays that explore multiple ways of reading and responding to the works of the British Romantics. This essay merges a personal and critical approach to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's  "Kubla Khan" and shows my resulting realization of the rewards such a reading can offer. I use a personal reaction to a small detail in order to arrive at a fuller understanding of the poem. When my misreading is corrected and the image that had been the basis of my love of the poem changed, I am able, with the aid of the theories of Coleridge, Shelley, and Wordsworth regarding the imagination, to perceive the full extent of my imagination's workings and come to appreciate them more fully, as these and other Romantic writers did. This experience mirrors the very act of imaginative creation that the poem portrays, and it allows me to engage with the poem on a new level. 

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