Catalogue Search | MBRL
Are you sure you want to remove the book from the shelf?
{{itemTitle}}
2
result(s) for
"Nowell Smith, David, author"
Sort by:
On voice in poetry : the work of animation
\"What do we mean by 'voice' in poetry? In this work, David Nowell Smith teases out the diverse meanings of 'voice' - from a poem's soundworld to the rhetorical gestures through which poems speak to us - to embark on a philosophical exploration of the concept of voice itself. His study encompasses renaissance lyrics and concrete poetry, analyses of metre and discussions of technological treatments of voice, and radical and far-reaching readings of Augustine, Baudelaire, Derrida, Hopkins and Kristeva alongside contemporary poets such as Sean Bonney, Lisa Robertson, and John Wilkinson. It places voice at the crux of debates including political representation through rhythm and melody, the 'origin' of languages and the psychology of language acquisition. Throughout, this informs a reflection on how sounds come to have meaning, and on the ways in which we articulate ourselves as subjects\"-- Provided by publisher.
Book
Sounding/Silence
Sounding/Silence charts Heidegger's deep engagement with poetry, situating it within the internal dynamics of his thought and within the domains of poetics and literary criticism. Heidegger viewed poetics and literary criticism with notorious disdain: he claimed that his Erlauterungen (\"soundings\") of Holderlin's poetry were not \"contributions to aesthetics and literary history\" but rather stemmed \"from a necessity for thought.\" And yet, the questions he poses--the value of significance of prosody and trope, the concept of \"poetic language\", the relation between language and body, the \"truth\" of poetry--reach to the very heart of poetics as a discipline, and indeed situate Heidegger within a wider history of thinking on poetry and poetics. opening up points of contact between Heidegger's discussions of poetry and technical and critical analyses of these poems, Nowell Smith addresses a lacuna within Heidegger scholarship and sets off from Heidegger's thought to sketch a philosophical \"poetics of limit\".
eBook