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Auteur(s) : De Gaynesford, Maximilian
Titre(s) : The rift in the lute [Texte imprimé] : attuning poetry and philosophy / Maximilian de Gaynesford
Publication : Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford university press, 2017
Description matérielle : xi, 297 pages ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-291) and index
What is it for poetry to be serious and to be taken seriously? What is it to be open
to poetry, exposed to its force, attuned to what it says and alive to what it does?
These are important questions that call equally on poetry and philosophy. But poetry
and philosophy, notoriously, have an ancient quarrel. Maximilian de Gaynesford sets
out to understand and convert their mutual antipathy into something mutually enhancing,
so that we can begin to answer these and other questions. The key to attuning poetry
and philosophy lies in the fact that poetic utterances are best appreciated as doing
things. For it is as doing things that the speech act approach in analytic philosophy
of language tries to understand all utterances. Taking such an approach, this book
offers ways to enhance our appreciation of poetry and to develop our understanding
of philosophy. It explores work by a range of poets from Chaucer to Geoffrey Hill
and J. H. Prynne, and culminates in an extended study of Shakespeare's Sonnets. What
work does poetry set itself, and how does this determine the way it is to be judged?
What do poets commit themselves to, and what they may be held responsible for? What
role does a poet have, or their audience, or their context, in determining the meaning
of a poem, what work it is able to achieve? These are the questions that an attuned
approach is able to ask and answer
Sujet(s) : Philosophie et littérature
Poésie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780198797265. - ISBN 0198797265
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45569049s
Notice n° :
FRBNF45569049
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Table des matières : Introduction: what is attunement? ; Part I. Sense and sensitivity ; Austin's remarks
; Poets and critics ; Philosophers ; What matters ; Truth ; Action ; Responsibility
; Part II. Doing things with attunement ; Chaucer-type ; Elaborating the type ;
Four features ; Four poets ; Shakespeare's sonnets ; Phrasing ; Naming ; Securing
; Doing ; Doing time ; Conclusion: weaving new webs.
