Poetics and the gift : reading poetry from Homer to Derrida / Adam R. Rosenthal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosenthal, Adam R. (Assistant professor), author.

Series:

Edinburgh scholarship online.

Edinburgh scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry--History and criticism.

Poetry.

Gifts in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 pages)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2023]

Summary:

This study shows how the figure of the gift structures poetic discourse and does so from the age of Homer up through 21st century conceptual poetics. Beginning from a new interpretation of Derrida's writings on the gift, Adam R. Rosenthal argues that this ambivalent figure names at one and the same time poetry's most extreme aneconomic privilege and the point of its closest contact with the interested exchange of the market. In this way, the gift conducts material relays of patronage and theories of poetic origination, in genius, inspiration, and imagination. 'Poetics and the Gift' capitalises on this double function in order to read material historical accounts of poetry alongside philosophical and poetic ones. By way of his original reading of Derrida's work in Given Time and 'Economimesis', Rosenthal offers a novel account of 'gift poetics' and a new understanding of what makes poetry 'poetry'.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures

Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction: ‘Economimesis’ after Given Time, or: The Return of Helio-Poetics

Part I: Poetic Divinity and Patronage

1. Poetic Donation from Homer to Kant

2. Symbolic Economies of Poet and Patron

3. Patronage and Poetic Election in Wordsworth

Part II: Being and Naming

Introduction

4. Stein and the Concern of Poetry

5. Heidegger and the Stiftung der Wahrheit

6. Shelley and the Gift of the Name

Part III: Economy and Aneconomy

7. Emerson and the Flower of Commodities

8. Thoreau on Poetic Purchase

9. Baudelaire and the Gift of Pleasing

Part IV: Givens

10. Poetry Lost and Found in Howe, Goldsmith, and Philip

Conclusion: The Birth of Lyric in The Homeric Hymn to Hermes

Appendix: Henry David Thoreau, ‘A Poet Buying a Farm’

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 24, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Rosenthal, Adam R. Poetics and the Gift

ISBN:

1-3995-1346-X

1-4744-8843-9

1-4744-8842-0

OCLC:

1303892609