Overview
"Sounding/Silence charts Heidegger's deep engagement with poetry, situating it within the internal dynamics of his thought and within the domains of poetics and literary criticism. Heidegger viewed poetics and literary criticism with notorious disdain: he claimed that his Erl�uterungen (""soundings"") of H�lderlin's poetry were not ""contributions to aesthetics and literary history"" but rather stemmed ""from a necessity for thought."" And yet, the questions he poses--the value of significance of prosody and trope, the concept of ""poetic language"", the relation between language and body, the ""truth"" of poetry--reach to the very heart of poetics as a discipline, and indeed situate Heidegger within a wider history of thinking on poetry and poetics. opening up points of contact between Heidegger's discussions of poetry and technical and critical analyses of these poems, Nowell Smith addresses a lacuna within Heidegger scholarship and sets off from Heidegger's thought to sketch a philosophical ""poetics of limit""."
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Author: Lecturer in Literature David Nowell Smith (The University of East Anglia)
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Imprint: Fordham University Press
ISBN: 9780823252947
ISBN 10: 0823252949
Publication Date: 23 January 2014
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Reviews
The best book on Heidegger and poetry that I have ever read, Nowell-Smith's Sounding Silence takes both Heidegger and poetry very seriously, presuming that the most worthwhile goal is to do justice to both in an attempt to advance our understanding of poetics.-Jonathan Culler, Cornell University This is a major work of critical thought. . . highly recommended. -Choice 'Sounding/Silence' is a welcome contribution to a growing movement to rehabilitate literary criticism left casting about in the ruins that critical theory has made of literature studies. -The Review of Metaphysics
"The best book on Heidegger and poetry that I have ever read, Nowell-Smith's Sounding Silence takes both Heidegger and poetry very seriously, presuming that the most worthwhile goal is to do justice to both in an attempt to advance our understanding of poetics.-Jonathan Culler, Cornell University ""This is a major work of critical thought. . . highly recommended."" -Choice ""'Sounding/Silence' is a welcome contribution to a growing movement to rehabilitate literary criticism left casting about in the ruins that critical theory has made of literature studies."" -The Review of Metaphysics"
Author Information
David Nowell Smith is Lecturer in Literature at the University of East Anglia.
