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Ornamental Aesthetics - The Poetry of Attending in Thoreau, Dickinson, and Whitman (Paperback)
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Ornamental Aesthetics - The Poetry of Attending in Thoreau, Dickinson, and Whitman (Paperback)
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Ornamental Aesthetics offers a theory of ornamentation as a manner
of marking out objects for notice, attention, praise, and a means
of exploring qualities of mental engagement other than
interpretation and representation. Although Thoreau, Dickinson, and
Whitman were hostile to the overdecorated rooms and poems of
nineteenth-century culture, their writings are full of references
to chandeliers, butterflies, diamonds, and banners which indicate
their primary investment in ornamentation as a form of attending.
Theo Davis argues that this essential quality of ornamentation has
been obscured by the enduring emphasis of literary studies on the
structure of representation, and on how meaning is embodied in
material form. Thoreau, Dickinson, and Whitman's sense of
ornamentation as a manner of attending is grounded in an
understanding of poetry as an adornment to the world, and thus as a
way of relating to what is present rather than of representing it.
Ornamental Aesthetics investigates the aesthetic practices of
Thoreau, Dickinson, and Whitman through readings of the writings of
Martin Heidegger, which also presents the human mind as an
agitated, responsive, and ornamental presence. Drawing together
work in poetics, rhetoric, philosophy, and nineteenth-century
American literature, Ornamental Aesthetics ultimately argues that
the kinds of immediate experience of attending which concerns
ornamentation should retain a central place in the study of
literature and the humanities more broadly.
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