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Words' Worth: What the Poet Does de Professor Claudia Brodsky

Words' Worth: What the Poet Does

Autor Professor Claudia Brodsky
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Claudia Brodsky marshals her equal expertise in literature and philosophy to redefine the terms and trajectory of the theory and interpretation of modern poetry. Taking her cue from Wordsworth's revolutionary understanding of "real language," Brodsky unfolds a provocative new theory of poetry, a way of looking at poetry that challenges traditional assumptions. Analyzing both theory and practice, and taking in a broad swathe of writers and thinkers from Wordsworth to Rousseau to Hegel to Proust, Brodsky is at pains to draw out the transformative, active, and effective power of literature. Poetry, she says, is only worthy of the name when it is not the property of the poet but of society, when it is valued for what it does. Words' Worth is a bold new work, by a leading scholar of literature, which demands a response from all students and scholars of modern poetry.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781501364532
ISBN-10: 1501364537
Pagini: 160
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

First Bloomsbury book by a leading American scholar who is known for her contributions to comparative literature and poetry studies as well as to philosophy

Notă biografică

Claudia Brodsky is Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University, USA, and ancien Directeur de Programme at the Collège International de Philosophie, Paris, France. Her publications include The Imposition of Form (1987), Lines of Thought (1996), Birth of a Nation'hood (co-edited with Toni Morrison, 1997), In the Place of Language (2009), Inventing Agency (co-edited with Eloy LaBrada, Bloomsbury, 2017), and The Linguistic Condition (forthcoming Bloomsbury, 2020).

Cuprins

Acknowledgments Part I. Language Theory and Poetics 1. Wordsworth and the "Material Difference" of the "Real Language of Men"2. A "Complex Scene"3. "What the Poet Does"4. The Poetics of Contradiction 5. "The True Difficulty"6. "Spontaneous Overflow" StagedPart II. "Real Language" in Action7. "Strange Fits"8. "A Slumber . . ."9. "Imagination"Part III. Necessary Poetics: Theory of the Real10. "The Real Horizon" (Beyond Emotion): "Living Things" "That Do Not Live Like Living Men," or the "Path" of the Subject Crossed11. "The Real Horizon" (Before Emotion): What Proust (Rousseau, Diderot, and Hegel) Had "in" MindBibliography Index

Recenzii

In this compelling study, Claudia Brodsky radically revises our understanding of what the poet does, above all by developing dazzling readings of what Wordsworth meant by such central terms as real language, imagination, and nature. Through Brodsky's tenacious, fine-grained readings of Wordsworth's poetry and poetics - and also through her perceptive discussions of other writers from Diderot to De Man - language emerges as uniquely active and as capable of producing a distinctive kind of knowledge that goes beyond the merely empirical. This is a revelatory book that will transform our sense of the capacities of poetry for good.
'Word's worth' or the 'worthy purpose' of language, and in particular what Wordsworth called alternately 'the real language of men' and 'the language really spoken by men,' is the subject of Claudia Brodsky's illuminating book. In a series of suggestive readings of Wordsworth's poetry and prose Brodsky discovers a force of this real and really spoken language that is analogous to the transcendental power to think what cannot be known in the cognitive sense--what Kant called the sublime.
In Words' Worth, Claudia Brodsky accomplishes the seemingly impossible: an original reading of Wordsworth that renders his potent commonplaces strange, much in the manner of the poet himself. Rigorously lucid and seriously playful, engaging a range of interlocutors from Kant to Rousseau to Proust to Hegel to de Man, this meditation on language, aesthetics, power and knowledge puts Wordsworth's work into philosophical motion, uniting poetry, philosophy and the work of the critic herself in a common endeavor of making and/as knowing.

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Claudia Brodsky marshals her equal expertise in literature and philosophy to redefine the terms and trajectory of the theory and interpretation of modern poetry. Taking her cue from Wordsworth's revolutionary understanding of "real language," Brodsky unfolds a provocative new theory of poetry, a way of looking at poetry that challenges traditional assumptions. Analyzing both theory and practice, and taking in a broad swathe of writers and thinkers from Wordsworth to Rousseau to Hegel to Proust, Brodsky is at pains to draw out the transformative, active, and effective power of literature. Poetry, she says, is only worthy of the name when it is not the property of the poet but of society, when it is valued for what it does. Words' Worth is a bold new work, by a leading scholar of literature, which demands a response from all students and scholars of modern poetry.