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Zusatztext In Words' Worth, Claudia Brodsky accomplishes the seemingly impossible: an original reading of Wordsworth that renders his potent commonplaces strange, much in the manner of the poet himself. Rigorously lucid and seriously playful, engaging a range of interlocutors from Kant to Rousseau to Proust to Hegel to de Man, this meditation on language, aesthetics, power and knowledge puts Wordsworth’s work into philosophical motion, uniting poetry, philosophy and the work of the critic herself in a common endeavor of making and/as knowing. Informationen zum Autor Claudia Brodsky is Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University, USA, and ancien Directeur de Programme at the Collège 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). Zusammenfassung 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' Worth is a bold new work, by a leading scholar of literature, which demands a response from all students and scholars of modern poetry. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Part I. Language Theory and Poetics 1. Wordsworth and the “Material Difference” of the “Real Language of Men”2. A “Complex Scene”3. “What the Poet Does”4. The Poetics of Contradiction 5. “The True Difficulty”6. “Spontaneous Overflow” Staged Part II. “Real Language” in Action 7. “Strange Fits”8. “A Slumber . . .”9. “Imagination” Part III. Necessary Poetics: Theory of the Real 10. “The Real Horizon” (Beyond Emotion): “Living Things” “That Do Not Live Like Living Men,” or the “Path” of the Subject Crossed11. “The Real Horizon” (Before Emotion): What Proust (Rousseau, Diderot, and Hegel) Had "in" Mind Bibliography Index ...
