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Publié par

Fordham University Press

Date de parution

17 mai 2022

EAN13

9780823299829

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

4 Mo

Poetry is dead. Poetry is all around us. Both are trite truisms that this book exploits and challenges.In his 1798 Advertisement to Lyrical Ballads, William Wordsworth anticipates that readers accustomed to the poetic norms of the day might not recognize his experiments as poems and might signal their awkward confusion upon opening the book by looking round for poetry, as if seeking it elsewhere. Look Round for Poetry transforms Wordsworth's idiomatic expression into a methodological charge. By placing tropes and figures common to Romantic and Post-Romantic poems in conjunction with contemporary economic, technological, and political discourse, Look Round for Poetry identifies poetry's untimely echoes in discourses not always read as poetry or not always read poetically.Once one begins looking round for poetry, McGrath insists, one might discover it in some surprising contexts. In chapters that spring from poems by Wordsworth, Lucille Clifton, John Keats, and Percy Bysshe Shelley, McGrath reads poetic examples of understatement alongside market demands for more; the downturned brow as a figure for economic catastrophe; Romantic cloud metaphors alongside the rhetoric of cloud computing; the election of the dead as a poetical, and not just a political, act; and poetic investigations into the power of prepositions as theories of political assembly.For poetry to retain a vital power, McGrath argues, we need to become ignorant of what we think we mean by it. In the process we may discover critical vocabularies that engage the complexity of social life all around us.

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Publié par

Fordham University Press

Date de parution

17 mai 2022

EAN13

9780823299829

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

4 Mo

L O O K R O U N D F O R P O E T R Y

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LOOK ROUND FOR POETRY

Untîmey Romantîcîsms

Brian McGrath

Fordham Unîversîty Press NewYork 2022

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Contents

ïntroductîon 1. Understatîng Poetry 2. The Poetîcs o Downturns 3. ï Wandered oney as an îCoud 4. On the Poetry o Posthumous Eectîon 5. Keats or Begînners 6. The Grammar o Romantîcîsm: Sheey’s Preposîtîons Concusîon Acknowedgments Notes Bîbîography ïndex

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L O O K R O U N D F O R P O E T R Y

Introduction

They wî ook round or poetry, and wî be înduced to enquîre . . . —Wîîam Wordsworth, advertîsement toLyrîca Baads(1798)

The onger ï înger wîth the grammatîca and rhetorîca structures that gîve a poem shape the more ï ee ï see these same structures around me. înguîsts and psychoogîsts have varîous terms or thîs experîence (or condîtîon), as seectîve attentîon eads to conirmatîon bîas: when one earns somethîng new or studîes somethîng or a whîe, one tends to see ît more oten and even a around one. The îdea that one who studîes poetry mîght see poetry a around may surprîse ew, but înLook Round or Poetryï take thîs experîence as a charge. ï pace în apposîtîon seect poems and varîous tropes and igures common în economîc, technoogîca, and poîtîca dîscourse and ceebrate poetry’s capacîty to make the rhetorîc o contemporary îe dîferenty egîbe. Thîs book started to emerge as varîous socîa medîa patorms, such as Facebook and Twîtter, became încreasîngy ubîquîtous. At the tîme ï was eadîng a Theory cooquîum or students în a PhD program caed Rheto-rîcs, Communîcatîon, and ïnormatîon Desîgn, durîng whîch we read a range o texts, rom Arîstote to Wendy Huî Kyong Chun.The students were we prepared to thînk about rhetorîc and înterested în contemporary medîa and contemporary medîa theory. They were, generay speakîng, ess înterested în poetry, but not because they dîsîked ît.To many o them poetry just dîd not seem to it the program’s descrîptîon. But the more we dîscussed the rhetorîc o contemporary medîa, the more ît et, to me at east, îke we were takîng about poetry. As ï ony ha-joked durîng one meetîng, to me both Twîtter and Facebook operatîonaîze poetry or proit and so owe much to poetry. By happy chance, theOxord Engîsh Dîctîonary(OED) ofers Geofrey Chaucer, author oTaesThe Canterbury , as the orîgînator o the wordtwîtteraround 1380, used as a verb meanîng to gîve a ca consîstîng o repeated îght

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