Poetryâ (Tm)S Appeal: Nineteenth-Century French Lyric and the Political Space

by E.S. Burt

Book Overview

Socrates banished poetry from the ideal republic, adopting the philosophical position that poetic language operates outside the conventions of public discourse and is private in expression. But what does the banished language of poetry say about its relation to public space? Is it possible to draw a line severing the language of beauty from the language of truth? Derrida asks whether the line ought rather to pass between Western metaphysics, with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804738734
• ISBN13: 9780804738736
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"