Thinking Poetry: Philosophical Approaches to Nineteenth-Century French Poetry

ISBN-13: 9781137303639 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 226 str.

Joseph Acquisto

Opis

Why have poets played such an important role for contemporary philosophers? How can poetry link philosophy and political theory? How do formal considerations intersect with philosophical approaches? These essays seek to establish a dialogue between poetr

Recenzje

"Evocative and weighty, this is not so much a book about poetry for philosophers as it is a book about philosophy for readers well acquainted with canonical French poetry." - CHOICE

"Acquisto's very useful collection helps us better appreciate the precedents behind a form of analysis that gave rise to what structuralists and poststructuralists called 'reader-response' criticism. Such criticism invites, indeed forces, readers of modern poems, including their authors, to think long and hard both about what they express as well as what they do." - Nineteenth-Century French Studies

Spis treści

Introduction; J.Acquisto Baudelaire through Kierkegaard: Art, Fallibility, and Faith; E.Kaplan Passages through Baudelaire – from Poetry to Thought and Back; C.Witt Otherwise than Being: Levinassian Ethics in Victor Hugo's 'La Force des Choses,'; B.Stephens 'Je est un autre': Identity, Alterity, and Drug Use in Baudelaire and DeQuincey; A.Toumayan 'Poésie-boucherie': Baudelaire's Aesthetics and Ethics of Execution; E.Morisi Absolutely Absolute: Mallarmé, Blanchot, and the Absence de livre; J.McKeane Blank Phenomenality; C.Chi-ah Lyu Mallarmé's Tragico-Poetic Modernism; E.F.de Rosnay Mallarmé and the Ontologization of the Poem; D.N.Smith Poetic Form and the Crisis of Community: Revisiting Rancière's Aesthetics; A.James Baudelaire with Badiou: Event and Subjectivity in 'L'Héautontimorouménos,'; J.Acquisto 'Mesure parfaite et réinventée': Edouard Glissant Reinvents 19th-century French Poetry; H.Azerad

O autorze

Joseph Acquisto is an associate professor of French at the Univeristy of Vermont.