Poetics and the Gift : : Reading Poetry from Homer to Derrida / / Adam R. Rosenthal.
Diagnoses the Western poetic tradition’s determinative association of poetry with givingOffers a comparative analysis in multiple geographic regions (Europe and USA) and genres (poetry, literature, and philosophy)Speaks to current issues in Poetry and Poetics as well as Continental PhilosophyBridges...
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| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
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Table of 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