Language at the Boundaries

Philosophy, Literature, and the Poetics of Culture

AvPeter Carravetta

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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Is poetry still relevant today, or is it merely a dwindling historical art? How have poets of the recent past dealt with challenges to poetics?Seeking to chart the poetic act in a period not so much hostile as indifferent to poetry, Language at the Boundaries outlines spaces where poetry and poetics emerge in migration, translation, world literature, canon formation, and the history of science and technology. One can only come so close to fully possessing or explaining everything about the poetic act, and this book grapples with these limits by perusing, analyzing, deconstructing, and reconstructing creativity, implementing different approaches in doing so. Peter Carravetta consolidates historical epistemological positions that have accrued over the last several decades, some spurred by the modernism/postmodernism debate, and unpacks their differences--juxtaposing Vico with Heidegger and applying the approaches of translation studies, decolonization, indigeneity, committed literature, and critical race theory, among others. What emerges is a defense and theory of poetics in the contemporary world, engaging the topic in a dialectic mode and seeking grounds of agreement.

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Utgivningsdatum:2022-10-20
Mått:152 x 229 x 12 mm
Vikt:318 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:216
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781501371882

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Peter Carravetta is Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook University, USA. His previous publications include After Identity: Migration, Critique, Italian American Culture (2017), The Elusive Hermes: Method, Discourse, Interpreting (2012), and Prefaces to the Diaphora: Rhetorics, Allegory, and the Interpretation of Postmodernity (1991). He also edited the collection Dante Worlds. Echoes, Places, Questions (2019).

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Carravetta is a tireless explorer of the rhetorical fascinations of language and its struggles to break through into thought. This collection of essays is a battering intellectual whirlwind, storming through Dante and Nietzsche to meet passions seeking voice in our time.

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List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Limitrophy: Approaches to Poetics1 Tuning in/to the Diaphora: Lyric, Metaphysics, and the Reasons of Allegory2 Poetics and Linguistics: Boundaries of Language in F. T. Marinetti and Gertrude Stein3 Poetics of Paradox: An Approach to Thus Spoke Zarathustra4 Poetics of the Manifold and the Hybrid: Poets between Cultures5 Poetica Cosmographica: An American Poet in Taiwan6 Poetics of Science: Poiesis, techne, logos7 Poetics of Translation as Migration8 The Canon(s) of World Literature: Premises to a Postcolonial, Transnational PoeticsBibliographyIndex of NamesSubject Index