Poetry, consciousness and community / Christopher (Kit) Kelen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kelen, Christopher, 1958-

Series:

Consciousness, Literature and the Arts 23.

Consciousness, literature & the arts, 1573-2193 ; 23

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry--History and criticism.

Poetry.

Consciousness in literature.

Communities in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (199 pages).

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The process of poetry has importantly intuitive aspects and poetry embodies an ambivalence towards consciousness and towards those activities of thought in which it is constituted. It was ability to favour doubt over the productions of the rational mind that led Keats to associate poetry with his ‘negative capability’. Consciousness is – like poetry – a floating signifier, a term of wide reference, and with a range of implications in the various disciplinary contexts in which it finds currency. Poetry, consciousness and community is about poetry, consciousness and community, about their reflexive relationships in process, and about how these relationships matter to the world today and to worlds to come. This book is interested in the nature of poetic, as opposed to other, thought; it is interested in the critical application of these forms of thought to each others’ productions, and in how poetic thought might or might not be subject to its own regime. Poetry – as practice of testing the limits of language – entails a reflexive goal: that of understanding the journey in words made possible for, and by, the poem. Poetic meaning and truth are revealed between languages (likewise between genres, between texts, between subjects); it is in this inter-subjective and inter-cultural space that the limits of language (and so of conceivable worlds) are found.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

The Scope of the Work

Poetry and Consciousness: The Scope of Indirection

Over the Border: The Everyday Lapse

The Tropic and the Iterative: of Haunting and of Laughter

Witness and Habitation: Waking up to Ourselves

Community: The Word is a Window

Bibliography.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-199).

ISBN:

90-420-2725-8

OCLC:

566184338

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789042027251 DOI