The poetic imperative : a speculative aesthetics /

"This book aims to expand our sense of poetry's reach and potential impact. It is an effort at recouping the poetic imperative buried within the first taxonomic description of human being: "nosce te ipsum," or "know yourself." Johanna Skibsrud explores both poetry and h...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Skibsrud, Johanna, 1980- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2020]
Temas:
Poetry, Modern > History and criticism.
Poetics.
Self in literature.
Poétique.
Moi (Psychologie) dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry.
Poetics
Poetry, Modern
Self in literature
LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • The Poetic Imperative
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1 "The Bees Come Booming": A Poetics of "As If"
  • 2 "One Kind of Knowledge": Poetry and Belief
  • 3 "Un coup de dés": The Secret History of Poetry
  • and Its Imaginary Future
  • 4 The Vanishing Point of Meaning: "Making Sense" of the Fugal Past
  • 5 "To Undo the Creature": The Paradox of Writing
  • 6 Praxis and Poiesis: The Subversive Structures of Poetry and Human Being
  • 7 The Future Library and the Xenotext: Poetry and the Futurism of the Present
  • Notes
  • References

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