Transcultural Poetics and the Concept of the Poet: From Philip Sidney to T. S. Eliot

ISBN-13: 9780367871147 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 196 str.

Ranjan Ghosh

Opis

This book interrogates the concept of the poet across a wide range of traditions and philosophies of creativity rarely studied side by side, carving out unexplored spaces of negotiation and intersections between literature, aesthetics and philosophy. Ghosh demonstrates an original method of ‘global comparison’ that displaces the categories that

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Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: The Poet: the ‘More-Ever’ and the Transcultural ‘Now’ 1. Poet as Maker? Abuse, Apology and After 2. ‘To you I submit my selfe, and worke. Farewell’: The Poet and the Reader 3. ‘Illumine what in me is dark’: The Poet and the Aesthetics of Blindness and Insight 4. ‘Launch not beyond your depth but be discreet’: Poet and the Neoclassical Philosophy of Art 5. ‘Fearful Symmetry?’ Rethinking the Poet in Romantic philosophy of Creativity 6. ‘Hero as Poet’: Thomas Carlyle and ‘Future Poetry’ 7. ‘O life unlike to ours!’: Matthew Arnold as an Indian Sage? 8. The ‘Platinum’ Poet: Modernist Aesthetics and the Making of a Poem Epilogue: ‘I arise and unbuild it again’: The Poet and Postmodern Critical Philosophy Bibliography Index

O autorze

Ranjan Ghosh teaches in the department of English, University of North Bengal, India. To know more about him please visit his website: http://www.ranjanghosh.com/