Something Speaks to Me

Where Criticism Begins

AvMichel Chaouli

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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An account of criticism as an urgent response to what moves us.Criticism begins when we put down a book to tell someone about it. It is what we do when we face a work or event that bowls us over and makes us scramble for a response. As Michel Chaouli argues, criticism involves three moments: Something speaks to me. I must tell you about it. But I don’t know how. The heart of criticism, no matter its form, lies in these surges of thoughts and feelings. Criticism arises from the fundamental need to share what overwhelms us.We tend to associate criticism with scholarship and journalism. But Chaouli is not describing professional criticism, but what he calls “poetic criticism”—a staging ground for surprise, dread, delight, comprehension, and incomprehension. Written in the mode of a philosophical essay, Something Speaks to Me draws on a wide range of writers, artists, and thinkers, from Kant and Schlegel to Merleau-Ponty, Bachelard, Barthes, and Cavell. Reflecting on these dimensions of poetic experience, Something Speaks to Me is less concerned with joining academic debates than communicating the urgency of criticism.

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Utgivningsdatum:2024-02-16
Mått:140 x 216 x 15 mm
Vikt:227 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:192
Förlag:The University of Chicago Press
ISBN:9780226830421

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Michel Chaouli is professor of German and comparative literature at Indiana University Bloomington, where he also directs the Center for Theoretical Inquiry in the Humanities. His recent publications include Thinking with Kant’s “Critique of Judgment” and the coedited volume Poetic Critique: Encounters with Art and Literature.

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“If, as Michel Chaouli suggests, there is no greater compliment to pay a work than ‘to credit it with the power of arousing the urge of making,’ then this book deserves that high praise. I left its pages grateful to the author for articulating things I’ve thought but didn’t yet have words for, as well as for articulating ideas that hadn’t yet occurred to me. Chaouli’s prose is patient and pellucid at every turn without ever sacrificing passion or complexity. His book renews my excitement about—and dedication to—poetic criticism, not to mention the sustaining arts of connection and conversation.”

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To Start Part 1. Something Speaks to Me (Intimacy)Feeling the Pulse of the TextSome ExamplesPoetic Criticism, an EssayRoland Barthes Has SushiWhat Does the Text Want from Me?The Impersonality of IntimacyThe Texture of IntimacyProductive DistrustLearning to UnlearnNaïvetéIntimacy, Self-TaughtThe Call of SignificanceThe Authority of the PoeticBeing in HistoryBeing in the Same History (Tradition)A Bastard of History Part 2. I Must Tell You about It (Urgency)Understanding and MakingMaking the New by Remaking the OldLearning Not to ConcludeTactPlaying It by EarPoetic Making Conserves as It RenewsPoetic PowerPhilological DisarmamentHearing That We May SpeakSecond ThoughtsSelf-Reference versus UrgencyEpiphaniesThe Intense Life of LanguageWhat and HowThe Knot of ExperienceMaking Freedom Part 3. But I Don’t Know How (Opacity)Shadow in Plain SightThe Difficulty of CriticismThe Strange VoiceAristotle versus PlatoWhat in Technique Is More Than TechniqueWhat Kind of Thing Is the Poetic Thing?The Work of Art versus the Poetic WorkThe Eye of the Work, the Eye of the BeholderHow to Leap Over One’s Own ShadowWhy Non-Knowing Is the Primal Condition of PoetryGeniusCriticism Is MakingThe Poet of the PoetFallingThe Difficulty, and the Ecstasy, of RealityIs Poetry a Deflection from Life?In Poetry, Non-Knowing Is a Primal ConditionThe Social Force of the Impersonal To Be Continued . . . AcknowledgmentsNotesIndex