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 Erlauterungen (""soundings"") of Holderlin'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.""
Full Product Details
Author: David Nowell Smith
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Imprint: Fordham University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.485kg
ISBN: 9780823251537
ISBN 10: 0823251535
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 02 September 2013
Audience:
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College/higher education
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Professional & Vocational
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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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
"""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"
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 Senior Lecturer in the School of Literature, Creative Writing, and Drama at the University of East Anglia, and editor of the journal Thinking Verse. His books include Sounding/Silence: Martin Heidegger at the Limits of Poetics (2013) and On Voice in Poetry: The Work of Animation (2015).
