Words' Worth: What the Poet Does by Brodsky, Claudia

Words' Worth: What the Poet Does (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781501364532)

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Words' Worth: What the Poet Does by Brodsky, Claudia

Words' Worth: What the Poet Does

$100.00
Words' Worth: What the Poet Does by Brodsky, Claudia

Words' Worth: What the Poet Does

$100.00
Format: Hardcover
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Claudia Brodsky marshals her equal expertise in literature and philosophy to redefine the terms and trajectory of the theory and interpretation of modern poetry.

Taking her cue from Wordsworth's revolutionary understanding of "real language," Brodsky unfolds a provocative new theory of poetry, a way of looking at poetry that challenges traditional assumptions. Analyzing both theory and practice, and taking in a broad swathe of writers and thinkers from Wordsworth to Rousseau to Hegel to Proust, Brodsky is at pains to draw out the transformative, active, and effective power of literature. Poetry, she says, is only worthy of the name when it is not the property of the poet but of society, when it is valued for what it does.

Words' Worthis a bold new work, by a leading scholar of literature, which demands a response from all students and scholars of modern poetry.

Author: Claudia Brodsky
ISBN-10: 1501364537
ISBN-13: 9781501364532
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 09/03/2020
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.44d
By Claudia Brodsky
By Claudia Brodsky
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Claudia Brodsky is Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University, USA, and ancien Directeur de Programme at the Coll鑒e International de Philosophie, Paris, France. Her publications include The Imposition of Form (1987), Lines of Thought (1996), Birth of a Nation'hood (co-edited with Toni Morrison, 1997), In the Place of Language (2009), Inventing Agency (co-edited with Eloy LaBrada, Bloomsbury, 2017), and The Linguistic Condition (forthcoming Bloomsbury, 2020).

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