The philosophy of poetry / [edited by] John Gibson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gibson, John, 1969- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Poetry.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 253 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

'The Philosophy of Poetry' brings together philosophers of art, language, and mind to expose and address the array of problems poetry raises for philosophy. This volume offers a powerful demonstration of how central poetry should be to philosophy, and sets out the various puzzles and paradoxes that future work in the field will have to address.

Contents:

List of contributors. Introduction, the place of poetry in contemporary aesthetics / John Gibson

Semantic finegrainedness and poetic value / Peter Lamarque

The dense and the transparent, reconciling opposites / Ronald de Sousa

Poetic opacity, how to paint things with words / Jesse Prinz and Eric Mandelbaum

Unreadable poems and how they mean / Sherri Irvin

Can an analytic philosopher read poetry? / Simon Blackburn

The spoken and the written, an ontology of poems / Anna Christina Soy Ribeiro

Poetry and truth / Roger Scruton

Poetry's knowing, so what do we know? / Angela Leighton

Ethical estrangement, pictures, poetry, and epistemic value / Alison Denham

The inner paradise / Tzachi Zamir

"To think exactly and courageously," poetry, Ingeborg Bachmann's poetics, and her Bohemia poem / Richard Eldridge

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-179624-7

OCLC:

914234030