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Christian R. Gelder - The Search for a Science of Verse, 1880 to the Present, Inbunden

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The Search for a Science of Verse, 1880 to the Present

The Search for a Science of Verse, 1880-1940

Av Christian R. Gelder

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Beskrivning
From large-scale quantitative studies in the digital humanities to AI-generated poetry, scientific reading seemingly reigns supreme. However, these reading practices preceded, and often shaped, modern literary criticism and the rise of close reading. The Search for a Science of Verse restores this history, tracing the unruly and deeply political attempts to fashion a scientific account of poetry from 1880 onwards. It also investigates a set of modern poets, from Laura Riding to Veronica Forrest-Thomson, who thought about how their verse offers a form of knowledge not reducible to scientific explanation. It gives an account of the singularity of poetic thinking in their work, which actualises instances of meaning-making that prioritise the singular over the rule-governed. The Search for a Science of Verse is thus a historical inquiry into how techno-scientific reason sought to exert its full domination over the poetic imagination-and how that imagination, in turn, responded.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2026-03-05
  • Mått: 157 x 235 x 19 mm
  • Vikt: 462 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 240
  • Förlag: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9781009710213
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Christian R. Gelder is a Research Fellow in Literature at Macquarie University, Sydney. His work has appeared in Modernism/modernity, Literature and Medicine, Psychoanalysis and History, The Cambridge Quarterly, Australian Humanities Review and elsewhere. With Robert Boncardo, he is the co-author of Mallarmé: Rancière, Milner, Badiou (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018).

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'Christian R. Gelder's erudite and limpid study of aspirations toward a science of verse provides an intellectual history and a critique of ideology that should be of great interest to scholars of modernist poetics-but it also gives us much more. By showing how poets not only went beyond but worked through this positivist program, Gelder makes a dialectically compelling case for the specific forms of knowledge only poetry can construct.' Nathan Brown, Centre for Expanded Poetics, Concordia University

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