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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Davis, Theo
Titre(s) : Ornamental aesthetics [Texte imprimé] : the poetry of attending in Thoreau, Dickinson, and Whitman / Theo Davis
Publication : New York : Oxford university press, 2016
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (245 p.) ; 22 cm
Comprend : Introduction: To ornament ; Thoreau: an ornament to nature ; Dickinson: ornamentation and the open ; Whitman: ornamental distinction.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (231-242)
Ornamental Aesthetics offers a theory of ornamentation as a manner of marking out
objects for notice, attention, praise, and a means of exploring qualities of mental
engagement other than interpretation and representation. Although Thoreau, Dickinson,
and Whitman were hostile to the overdecorated rooms and poems of nineteenth-century
culture, their writings are full of references to chandeliers, butterflies, diamonds,
and banners which indicate their primary investment in ornamentation as a form of
attending. Theo Davis argues that this essential quality of ornamentation has been
obscured by the enduring emphasis of literary studies on the structure of representation,
and on how meaning is embodied in material form. Thoreau, Dickinson, and Whitman's
sense of ornamentation as a manner of attending is grounded in an understanding of
poetry as an adornment to the world, and thus as a way of relating to what is present
rather than of representing it. Ornamental Aesthetics investigates the aesthetic practices
of Thoreau, Dickinson, and Whitman through readings of the writings of Martin Heidegger,
which also presents the human mind as an agitated, responsive, and ornamental presence.
Drawing together work in poetics, rhetoric, philosophy, and nineteenth-century American
literature, Ornamental Aesthetics ultimately argues that the kinds of immediate experience
of attending which concerns ornamentation should retain a central place in the study
of literature and the humanities more broadly
Sujet(s) : Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862) -- Esthétique
Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) -- Esthétique
Whitman, Walt (1819-1892) -- Esthétique
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780190467517 (hardcover). - ISBN 0190467517 (hardcover). - ISBN 9780190467524 (erroné) (updf)
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