Poetry's knowing ignorance / Joseph Acquisto.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Acquisto, Joseph, 1975- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetics.

Poetry.

Ignorance (Theory of knowledge).

French poetry--History and criticism.

French poetry.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 volume ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.

Summary:

"What kind of knowledge, if any, does poetry provide? Poets make poems, but they also make meaning and craft a kind of learned and creative ignorance as they provide infinitely revisable answers to the question of what poetry is. That question of poetry's definition invites broader ones about the relationship of poetry to other lived experience. Poetry thus implies something like a way of life that is resistant to definitive statements and conclusions, and the creation of communities of readers and writers that live in ever-renewed questioning. To resist concluding is to embrace a kind of productive ignorance, a knowledge that is first and foremost aware of poetic knowledge's own limits. Poetry's Knowing Ignorance shows, through an examination of French poetry, how it is this dialogue in response to a constant questioning, to an answer-turned-question, that continues to blur the boundary between poetry and writing about poetry, between poetry and criticism, and between poetry and other kinds of experience"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : "that key that you must always keep on losing"

Knowledge, truth, and ignorance in nineteenth-century poetry : Hugo and Baudelaire

Saying the ineffable : poetry is poetry : from The Romantics to Valéry

Non-knowledge, limit, and productive impossibility : Bataille and Blanchot

"Moving forth from uncertainty all the same" : Jaccottet and Maulpoix

Poetry, community, relation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Acquisto, Joseph, 1975- author. Poetry's knowing ignorance

ISBN:

9781501355226

1501355228

OCLC:

1085661120