A Defense of Poetry

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ISBN: 9780804725316 | 0804725314
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 5/1/1995

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This book argues that literaturecanbe definedpragmatist and historicist arguments notwithstandingand that in its definition its unique value can be discovered. The author identifies literature ontologically as a sign of the preconceptual, as the "ostensive moment" that discloses neither the purpose nor the structure of existence but existence itself, revealed in its nonhuman register.

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Introduction	p. 1
Non-construction: History, Structure, and the Ostensive Moment in Literature	p. 11
One Last Theme: Literature as Insignificance	p. 31
The Hum of Literature: Ostension in Language	p. 50
The Torturer's Horse: What Poems See in Pictures	p. 70
Clearings in the Way: Non-epiphany in Wordsworth	p. 91
Nil Reconsidered: Criticism, Actuality, and "To Autumn"	p. 108
Possession of the Sublime, Repression of Insignificance	p. 133
The Absent Dead: Wordsworth, Byron, and the Epitaph	p. 159
Disposing of the Body: The Common Sense of the Romantic Moment of Dying	p. 181
Conclusion: The Ethics of Suspending Knowledge	p. 201
Notes	p. 215
Index	p. 247
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