Language at the Boundaries: Philosophy, Literature, and the Poetics of Culture (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781501363658)

Is poetry still relevant today, or is it merely a dwindling historical art? How have poets of the recent past dealt with challenges to poetics?

Seeking to chart the poetic act in a period not so much hostile as indifferent to poetry, Language at the Boundaries outlines spaces where poetry and poetics emerge in migration, translation, world literature, canon formation, and the history of science and technology.One can only come so close to fully possessing or explaining everything about the poetic act, and this book grapples with these limits by perusing, analyzing, deconstructing, and reconstructing creativity, implementing different approaches in doing so. Peter Carravetta consolidates historical epistemological positions that have accrued over the last several decades, some spurred by the modernism/postmodernism debate, and unpacks their differences--juxtaposing Vico with Heidegger and applying the approaches of translation studies, decolonization, indigeneity, committed literature, and critical race theory, among others. What emerges is a defense and theory of poetics in the contemporary world, engaging the topic in a dialectic mode and seeking grounds of agreement.

Author: Peter Carravetta
ISBN-10: 1501363654
ISBN-13: 9781501363658
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 04/08/2021
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d