Poetics and the Gift: Reading Poetry from Homer to Derrida - Brossura

Rosenthal, Adam R.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1474488412 ISBN 13: 9781474488419

Casa editrice: Edinburgh Univ Pr, 2023

Riassunto

Using a broad, comparative approach, this study shows how the figure of the gift structures poetic discourse and does so from the age of Homer up through twenty-first century conceptual poetics.
Beginning from a new interpretation of Derrida’s writings on the gift, Adam R. Rosenthal argues that this ambivalent figure names at one and the same time poetry’s most extreme aneconomic privilege and the point of its closest contact with the interested exchange of the market. In this way, the gift conducts material relays of patronage and theories of poetic origination, in genius, inspiration, and imagination. Poetics and the Gift capitalizes on this double function in order to read material historical accounts of poetry alongside philosophical and poetic ones.
By way of his original reading of Derrida’s work in Given Time and ‘Economimesis’, Rosenthal offers a novel account of ‘gift poetics’ and a new understanding of what makes poetry ‘poetry’.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Adam R. Rosenthal is Assistant Professor in the Department of International Studies at Texas A&M University. He has previously published journal articles and book chapters on European and American Romantic Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Continental Philosophy, Literary Theory and Deconstruction. He is the Associate Editor of The Online Archive of the Seminars and Courses of Jacques Derrida.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Edinburgh Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2023
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1474488412
• ISBN 13: 9781474488419
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 328
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile