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The Rift in The Lute - Attuning Poetry and Philosophy (Hardcover)
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The Rift in The Lute - Attuning Poetry and Philosophy (Hardcover)
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What is it for poetry to be serious and to be taken seriously? What
is it to be open to poetry, exposed to its force, attuned to what
it says and alive to what it does? These are important questions
that call equally on poetry and philosophy. But poetry and
philosophy, notoriously, have an ancient quarrel. Maximilian de
Gaynesford sets out to understand and convert their mutual
antipathy into something mutually enhancing, so that we can begin
to answer these and other questions. The key to attuning poetry and
philosophy lies in the fact that poetic utterances are best
appreciated as doing things. For it is as doing things that the
speech act approach in analytic philosophy of language tries to
understand all utterances. Taking such an approach, this book
offers ways to enhance our appreciation of poetry and to develop
our understanding of philosophy. It explores work by a range of
poets from Chaucer to Geoffrey Hill and J. H. Prynne, and
culminates in an extended study of Shakespeare's Sonnets. What work
does poetry set itself, and how does this determine the way it is
to be judged? What do poets commit themselves to, and what they may
be held responsible for? What role does a poet have, or their
audience, or their context, in determining the meaning of a poem,
what work it is able to achieve? These are the questions that an
attuned approach is able to ask and answer.
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