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Suddenness and the Composition of Poetic Thought - Paul Magee

Suddenness and the Composition of Poetic Thought

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Buch | Hardcover
264 Seiten
2022
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-5381-5352-9 (ISBN)
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Employing an extensive archive of interview materials with major Anglophone poets, this book uncovers how they think in the moments of composition, providing a lucid account of the links between poetic composition and live performative thinking.
Interrogating the much-cherished concept of “poetic thinking,” this book focusses on what interview and draft materials reveal of how poets think while in the act of writing. With findings from the cognitive tradition, this book uses performance theory and philosophy to examine this brief, creative window of conscious attention. Suddenness and the Composition of Poetic Thought draws out the implications of this radically curtailed view of consciousness on the poems and other texts we compose. Henrich von Kleist’s assertion that “it is not we, but a certain condition of ours which knows” emerges as central to this analysis of the thinking we perform in the very moments of composition.

Employing an extensive archive of interview materials with major Anglophone poets, discussing how they think in the moments of composition, the book also provides a lucid account of the links between poetic composition and live performative thinking in the context of the early (pre)textual history of the Ancient Greeks.

A transdisciplinary study at the crossroads of philosophy, cognitive psychology, literary studies and linguistics, this book reconceptualizes the wellsprings of new thought in poems and advances our understanding of thinking’s complex but vital link to the moment of utterance.

Paul Magee is associate professor of poetry at the University of Canberra. He is author of the ethnography From Here to Tierra del Fuego and two books of verse Cube Root of Book and Stone Postcard.

Acknowledgements

Introduction: On the Gradual Production of Thoughts Whilst Speaking

Part I Revising towards Spontaneity

1. We Do Not Know What We Are Going to Say until We Have Said It

2. “That’s the Illusion You’re Supposed to Get”

3. Scepticisms

Part II Two Histories of Sudden Verse

4. Romantic Revision and Its Others

5. The Iliad and The Odyssey Were Rapidly Composed

6. The Desk as Stage

7. Oral Verse in Performance

Part III Writing Is Speaking

8. Not-Quite Speech

9. Writing as “Oral Dictated”

10. Consciousness as a Window of Three Seconds

11. Song

Part IV Suddenness and Art

12. The Split in the Archive

13. “Great Goblets of Magnolialight”

References

Index

About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Lanham, MD
Sprache englisch
Maße 160 x 227 mm
Gewicht 567 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-5381-5352-1 / 1538153521
ISBN-13 978-1-5381-5352-9 / 9781538153529
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