A Defense of Poetry
A Defense of Poetry

Author: Paul H. Fry

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780804725316

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A Defense of Poetry argues that literature can be defined - pragmatist and historicist arguments notwithstanding - and that in its definition its unique value can be discovered. In qualified opposition to the most sophisticated Formalist definitions involving redundancy or economy of expression, the author identifies literature ontologically as a sign of the preconceptual, as the "ostensive moment" that discloses neither the purpose nor the structure of existence but existence itself, revealed in its nonhuman register.

Defence of Poetry an Essay
Defence of Poetry an Essay

Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com

Published: 2006-11

Total Pages: 86

ISBN-13: 1425048722

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A brilliant piece of philosophical discussion that displays Shelley's intellect and imagination. The book asserts the ''ideal nature and essential value'' of poetry and is Shelley's most important prose work. His arguments are vividly and convincingly presented.

A Defense of Poetry
A Defense of Poetry

Author: Gabriel Gudding

Publisher: Pitt Poetry

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13:

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Dangerous, edgy, and dark, Gudding offers a defense not only against the pretense and vanity of war, violence, and religion, but also against the vanity of poetry itself.

Literature Against Philosophy, Plato to Derrida
Literature Against Philosophy, Plato to Derrida

Author: Mark Edmundson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1995-06-15

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780521485326

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This timely book argues that the institutionalisation of literary theory, particularly within American and British academic circles, has led to a sterility of thought which ignores the special character of literary art. Mark Edmundson traces the origins of this tendency to the ancient quarrel between philosophy and poetry, in which Plato took the side of philosophy; and he shows how the work of modern theorists - Foucault, Derrida, de Man and Bloom - exhibits similar drives to subsume poetic art into some 'higher' kind of thought. Challenging and controversial, this book should be read by all teachers of literature and of theory, and by anyone concerned about the future of institutionalised literary studies.