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"Was macht einen Text poetisch? Kann man Eigenschaften und Verfahren benennen, die poetische Texte von anderen unterscheiden? Das Handbuch stellt sich den theoretischen Grundlagen dieser Fragen. Es gibt einen Überblick über die Geschichte der Poetik, über systematische Beiträge zur Poetizität und ausgewählte Autorenpoetiken. Die Frage nach der Poetizität bleibt auch dort erhalten, wo der Band das Paradigma kulturwissenschaftlich erweitert"-- "What makes a text poetic? Can we identify characteristics and practices that distinguish poetic texts from others? This handbook offers an overview of the history of poetics and of systematic studies of poeticism, and discusses a selection of author poetics. The paradigmatic focus on poeticism is also applied to broader areas of cultural studies"--

Lyriktheorie. --- Poetics, poeticism. --- Poetik. --- Poetizität. --- theory of poetry.

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Geoffrey Hill's Speech! Speech! (2000) encapsulates two thousand years' worth of utterances in a symbolic act of remembrance and expression of despair for the current age, in which we find "our minds and ears fouled by degraded public speech--by media hype, insipid sermons, hollow political rhetoric, and the ritual misuse of words." Through 120 densely allusive stanzas--"As many as the days that were / of SODOM"--the poem wrestles this condition from within, fighting fire with fire in an alchemical symbolic labour that transmutes the dross of corrupt and cliched idiom into a dynamic logopoeia that proves true Hill's persistent claim: "genuinely difficult art is truly democratic." Such is the weird, ambivalently hostile position of poetry in the present world and thus the space of our real connection to it: "Whatever strange relationship we have with the poem, it is not one of enjoyment. It is more like being brushed past, or aside, by an alien being" (Hill).Befriending this estrangement, embracing it as a more amicable brushing-up-against, Hassan's Annotations provide a thorough and patient explication of Speech! Speech! that both clarifies and deepens the poem's difficulties, illuminating its polyphonic language and careening discursive movement. The author's method is at once commentarial, descriptive, and narratorial, staying faithfully with the poem and following its complex verbal and logical turns. The book generously provides, rather than direct interpretative incursion, a more durable and productive document of "the true nature / of this achievement" (stanza 92), a capacious, open understanding of the text that will prove invaluable to its present and future readers.punctumbooks.com

Hill, Geoffrey --- Hill, Geoffrey. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Geoffrey Hill --- annotiations --- theory of poetry --- Speech! Speech!

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Continuum: Writings on Poetry as Artistic Practice reunites the most part of the essays and articles produced between 2007 and 2015 by poet and artist Alessandro De Francesco. It shows what De Francesco himself affirms at a point in the last text of the book: that an artist can also be a theorist, and that artistic practice and theoretical practice are difficult to distinguish in his work. This book is multilingual: each text was left in the language in which it was written. Therefore, it is predominantly in French, but Italian, English and German are also represented. In spite of poetry being at the center of Alessandro De Francesco’s interests as a thinker, the texts contained in this book are very heterogeneous: poetic statements, essays, scientific articles, lectures, interviews; and yet they also show a deep continuity. Continuum stands for the author’s uninterrupted commitment for poetry, for the numerous connections among the approached themes, and especially for the innovatory theoretical and political positions expressed here, from which all these writings originated.

Literary studies: poetry & poets --- Poetry --- Theory. --- History and criticism. --- Criticism --- Poems --- Verses (Poetry) --- Literature --- Philosophy --- Ecrit d'artiste --- Théoricien de l'art --- Théorie de l'art --- Poésie --- Essai --- Pratique artistique --- poetry --- theory of poetry --- literary theory