Ranjan Ghosh

Transcultural Poetics and the Concept of the Poet

From Philip Sidney to T. S. Eliot

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Produktbeschreibung

This book interrogates the concept of the poet across a wide range of traditions and philosophies of creativity rarely studied side by side, carving out unexplored spaces of negotiation and intersections between literature, aesthetics and philosophy. Ghosh demonstrates an original method of 'global comparison' that displaces the categories that have underpinned comparative literature approaches so far. Going beyond comparatism and reformulating the chronological patterns of reading, he introduces new methodologies, and new theoretical and epistemic triggers, for reading literature. By moving between theories of poetry and literature from widely separated times, contexts, and cultures, this book shows the relevance of canonical texts to a theory of the future as marked by post-global concerns.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 449g
• ISBN-13: 9781138826311
• ISBN-10: 1138826316
• Artikelnr.: 41093531

Autorenporträt

Ranjan Ghosh teaches in the department of English, University of North Bengal, India. To know more about him please visit his website: http://www.ranjanghosh.com

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: The Poet: the 'More-Ever' and the
Transcultural 'Now' 1. Poet as Maker? Abuse, Apology and After 2. 'To you I
submit my selfe, and worke. Farewell': The Poet and the Reader 3. 'Illumine
what in me is dark': The Poet and the Aesthetics of Blindness and Insight
4. 'Launch not beyond your depth but be discreet': Poet and the
Neoclassical Philosophy of Art 5. 'Fearful Symmetry?' Rethinking the Poet
in Romantic philosophy of Creativity 6. 'Hero as Poet': Thomas Carlyle and
'Future Poetry' 7. 'O life unlike to ours!': Matthew Arnold as an Indian
Sage? 8. The 'Platinum' Poet: Modernist Aesthetics and the Making of a Poem
Epilogue: 'I arise and unbuild it again': The Poet and Postmodern Critical
Philosophy Bibliography Index