Poetics and the Gift
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-8840-2 (ISBN)
Using a broad, comparative approach, this study shows how the figure of the gift structures poetic discourse and does so from the age of Homer up through twenty-first 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 capitalizes 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’.
Adam R. Rosenthal is Assistant Professor in the Department of International Studies at Texas A&M University. He has previously published journal articles and book chapters on European and American Romantic Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Continental Philosophy, Literary Theory and Deconstruction. He is the Associate Editor of The Online Archive of the Seminars and Courses of Jacques Derrida.
AcknowledgementsPreface - Poetry and the Gift
Introduction: ‘Economimesis’ after Given Time, or: The Return of Helio-Poetics
Part One - 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 Two - Being and Naming
4. Stein and the Concern of Poetry
5. Heidegger and the Stiftung der Wahrheit
6. Shelley and the Gift of the Name
Part Three - Economy and Aneconomy
7. Emerson and the Flower of Commodities
8. Thoreau on Poetic Purchase
9. Baudelaire and the Gift of Pleasing
Part Four - 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’
| Erscheinungsdatum | 09.02.2022 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 4 black and white illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4744-8840-4 / 1474488404 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4744-8840-2 / 9781474488402 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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