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Author:   John Gibson (University of Louisville)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 22.70cm
Weight:   0.450kg
ISBN:  

9780199603671

ISBN 10:   0199603677
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   14 May 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

John Gibson: Introduction 1: Peter Lamarque: Semantic Finegrainedness and Poetic Value 2: Ronald de Sousa: The Dense and the Transparent: Reconciling Opposites 3: Jesse Prinz and Eric Mandelbaum: Poetic Opacity: How to Paint Things with Words 4: Sherri Irvin: Unreadable Poems and How They Mean 5: Simon Blackburn: Can an Analytic Philosopher Read Poetry? 6: Anna Christina Soy Ribeiro: The Spoken and the Written: An Ontology of Poetic Works 7: Roger Scruton: Poetry & Truth 8: Angela Leighton: Poetry's Knowing: So What Do We Know? 9: Alison Denham: Celan's Song: Pictures, Poetry, and Epistemic Value 10: Tzachi Zamir: The Inner Paradise 11: Richard Eldridge: 'To Think Exactly and Courageously': Poetry, Ingeborg Bachmann's Poetics, and her Bohemia Poem Index

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[T]his is a useful and stimulating collection of some of the best current work on poetry from a mostly philosophical perspective. Ole Martin Skilleas, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

[T]his is a useful and stimulating collection of some of the best current work on poetry from a mostly philosophical perspective. Ole Martin Skilleas, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews This splendid collection of solidly documented, beautifully argued essays on modern poetry as an object of philosophical scrutiny works hard to catch up with similar philosophical attention to the visual arts. Gibson (philosophy, Univ. of Louisville) provides an ambitious introduction-though this reviewer wishes the suggestions for further reading had included George Steiner, I. A. Richards, and William Empson. Roger Scruton is the heavyweight contributor...His observations about poetry and prose and about T. S. Eliot are invaluable...Proud of their analytic skills, philosophers turn out to be masterful readers of modern lyric poetry. Readers will be grateful that the notes are at the base of the page...Highly Recommended. C.A.Riley II, CHOICE

Author Information

John Gibson is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Louisville. His research focuses on topics in the philosophy of literature and aesthetics. He is the author of Fiction and the Weave of Life (OUP, 2007) and coeditor of Narrative, Emotion and Insight (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011), The Literary Wittgenstein (Routledge, 2004), A Sense of The World: Essays on Fiction, Narrative, and Knowledge (Routledge, 2007), and the forthcoming The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Literature. He is currently working on a manuscript titled Poetry, Metaphor, and Nonsense: An Essay on Meaning.

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