Language at the Boundaries: Philosophy, Literature, and the Poetics of Culture

by Peter Carravetta

Book Overview

Is poetry still relevant today, or is it merely a dwindling historical art? How have poets of the recent past dealt with challenges to poetics?

Seeking to chart the poetic act in a period not so much hostile as indifferent to poetry, Language at the Boundaries outlines spaces where poetry and poetics emerge in migration, translation, world literature, canon formation, and the history of science and technology. One can only come so...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501371886
• ISBN13: 9781501371882
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"