Poetic Critique

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2021

Poetic Critique

Encounters with Art and Literature

Edited by: Michel Chaouli, Jan Lietz, Jutta Müller-Tamm and Simon Schleusener

Volume 19 in the series WeltLiteraturen / World Literatures

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110688719

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Poetic critique – is that not an oxymoron? Do these two forms of behavior, the poetic and the critical, not pull in different, even opposite, directions? For many scholars working in the humanities today, they largely do, but that has not always been the case. Friedrich Schlegel, for one, believed that critique worthy of its name must itself be poetic. Only then would it stand a chance of responding adequately to the work of art.

Taking Schlegel’s idea of poetische Kritik as a starting point, this volume reflects on the possibility of drawing these alleged opposites closer together. In light of current debates about the legacy of critique, it investigates whether a concept such as poetic critique (or poetic criticism) lends itself to enriching our intellectual practice by engaging with the poetic potential of criticism and the critical value of art and literature.

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Michel Chaouli, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA; Jan Lietz, Jutta Müller-Tamm and Simon Schleusener, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	i
Contents Open Access Download PDF	vii
What Is Poetic Critique? Michel Chaouli, Jan Lietz, Jutta Müller-Tamm and Simon Schleusener Open Access Download PDF	1
Why Adding ‘Poetic’ to ‘Critique’ Adds Nothing to Critique Jennifer Ashton Open Access Download PDF	7
Schlegel’s Words, Rightly Used Michel Chaouli Open Access Download PDF	19
Storytelling and Forgetfulness Amit Chaudhuri Open Access Download PDF	35
Poetry, Critique, Imitation Jeff Dolven Open Access Download PDF	45
“Echo Reconciles” Alexander García Düttmann Open Access Download PDF	57
On Not Forcing the Question: Criticism and Playing Along Jonathan Elmer Open Access Download PDF	65
La Chambre Poétique Anne Eusterschulte Open Access Download PDF	79
The Silence of the Concepts (in Meillassoux’s After Finitude and Gottlob Frege) Joshua Kates Open Access Download PDF	105
Theater as Critical Praxis: Interruption and Citability Bettine Menke Open Access Download PDF	125
Historicism’s Forms: The Aesthetics of Critique Walter Benn Michaels Open Access Download PDF	145
Poetic Criticism and the Work of Fiction: Goethe, Joyce, and Coetzee Yi-Ping Ong Open Access Download PDF	155
Surface, Distance, Depth: The Text and its Outside Simon Schleusener Open Access Download PDF	175
Contributors Open Access Download PDF	203

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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars of the Humanities (Literary Studies, Literary Theory, Philosophy)
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- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 204
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- Illustrations: 4
- Coloured Illustrations: 2
Keywords: Poetic Critique; literary theorie; Literary Theory and Aesthetics; Critique and Postcritique; Friedrich Schlegel

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Published: March 22, 2021
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Published: March 22, 2021
ISBN: 9783110688573

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