Words' Worth

What the Poet Does

AvClaudia Brodsky

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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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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Utgivningsdatum:2020-09-03
Mått:138 x 214 x 12 mm
Vikt:200 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:160
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781501364525

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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).

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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.

Innehållsförteckning

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