Lyric logic how modern American poetry reasons Johanna Winant

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Winant, Johanna, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--Philosophy.

American poetry.

Reason in literature.

American poetry--History and criticism.

Genre:

Literary criticism

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Columbia University Press (Lightning Source), 2026.

New York Columbia University Press [2026]

Summary:

"Lyric Logic tells an original story about the relationship between poetry and philosophy. Many poems, Johanna Winant argues, represent thinking, but only some poems model philosophical reasoning. For those that do, including poetry by modern American poets Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Gertrude Stein, Marianne Moore, and Elizabeth Bishop, poetic forms are also logical forms. This book shows that two different stories--modernism in literary studies and the problem of induction in philosophy--are sometimes the same story. Both are about destabilizing and enriching encounters with the new and unexpected. The problem of induction identifies the unreliability of this reasoning to predict future events based only on past ones and surfaces as an urgent topic in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American thought. Attention to induction in philosophy coincided with the emergence of literary modernism because both poetry and philosophy participated in a larger, fundamental question in modernity's intellectual history: How to understand and represent the new? Lyric Logic shows how modern American poetry responds to this problem by doing philosophical work through its formal experimentation. Winant recasts the poetics of central figures as examples of inductive reasoning. They argue that we see induction at its most robust in poems, and they defend induction, however unreliable, as the best way to make sense of the unpredictable modern world"-- Provided by publisher

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Print version record

Other Format:

Print version Winant, Johanna. Lyric logic

ISBN:

9780231565295

0231565291

9780231561747

0231561741

OCLC:

1584029711

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