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Informationen zum Autor Hazard Adams is professor emeritus of comparative literature, University of Washington, and founder and honorary senior fellow of the School of Criticism and Theory. His Critical Theory since Plato has served as a standard text in the field for more than three decades. Klappentext Hazard Adams is professor emeritus of comparative literature, University of Washington, and founder and honorary senior fellow of the School of Criticism and Theory. His Critical Theory since Plato has served as a standard text in the field for more than three decades. Zusammenfassung There is something offensive about poetry! judging by the number of attacks on it and defences of it. The author argues that poetry exists to offend - not through its subject matter but through the challenges it presents to the prevailing view of what language is for. He also specifies four poetic offences - gesture! drama! fiction! and trope. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 1. Introduction: Scandal and Offense Part I. Historical: Attack and Defense 2. Attack 3. Defense Part II. Theoretical: Four Offenses 4. Gesture 5. Drama 6. Fiction 7. Trope Part III. Critical: Studies in Antithetical Offense 8. Vico and Blake: Poetic Logic as Offense 9. Blake and Joyce: Friends in Offense 10. Joyce Cary's Antitheticality and His Politics of Experience 11. Seamus Heaney's Criticism and the Antithetical 12. The Double Offense of Great Bad Poetry; or, McGonagal Apotheosized Epilogue: Reminders Not Quite Gentle Index
