Peter Carravetta is Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook University, USA. His previous publications include After Identity: Migration, Critique, Italian American Culture (2017), The Elusive Hermes: Method, Discourse, Interpreting (2012), and Prefaces to the Diaphora: Rhetorics, Allegory, and the Interpretation of Postmodernity (1991). He also edited the collection Dante Worlds. Echoes, Places, Questions (2019).

• List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Limitrophy: Approaches to Poetics1 Tuning in/to the Diaphora: Lyric, Metaphysics, and the Reasons of Allegory2 Poetics and Linguistics: Boundaries of Language in F. T. Marinetti and Gertrude Stein3 Poetics of Paradox: An Approach to Thus Spoke Zarathustra4 Poetics of the Manifold and the Hybrid: Poets between Cultures5 Poetica Cosmographica: An American Poet in Taiwan6 Poetics of Science: Poiesis, techne, logos7 Poetics of Translation as Migration8 The Canon(s) of World Literature: Premises to a Postcolonial, Transnational PoeticsBibliographyIndex of NamesSubject Index

Carravetta is a tireless explorer of the rhetorical fascinations of language and its struggles to break through into thought. This collection of essays is a battering intellectual whirlwind, storming through Dante and Nietzsche to meet passions seeking voice in our time.

Peter Carravetta is Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook University, USA. His previous publications include After Identity: Migration, Critique, Italian American Culture (2017), The Elusive Hermes: Method, Discourse, Interpreting (2012), and Prefaces to the Diaphora: Rhetorics, Allegory, and the Interpretation of Postmodernity (1991). He also edited the collection Dante Worlds. Echoes, Places, Questions (2019).

• List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Limitrophy: Approaches to Poetics1 Tuning in/to the Diaphora: Lyric, Metaphysics, and the Reasons of Allegory2 Poetics and Linguistics: Boundaries of Language in F. T. Marinetti and Gertrude Stein3 Poetics of Paradox: An Approach to Thus Spoke Zarathustra4 Poetics of the Manifold and the Hybrid: Poets between Cultures5 Poetica Cosmographica: An American Poet in Taiwan6 Poetics of Science: Poiesis, techne, logos7 Poetics of Translation as Migration8 The Canon(s) of World Literature: Premises to a Postcolonial, Transnational PoeticsBibliographyIndex of NamesSubject Index

Carravetta is a tireless explorer of the rhetorical fascinations of language and its struggles to break through into thought. This collection of essays is a battering intellectual whirlwind, storming through Dante and Nietzsche to meet passions seeking voice in our time.

Peter Carravetta is Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook University, USA. His previous publications include After Identity: Migration, Critique, Italian American Culture (2017), The Elusive Hermes: Method, Discourse, Interpreting (2012), and Prefaces to the Diaphora: Rhetorics, Allegory, and the Interpretation of Postmodernity (1991). He also edited the collection Dante Worlds. Echoes, Places, Questions (2019).

• List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Limitrophy: Approaches to Poetics1 Tuning in/to the Diaphora: Lyric, Metaphysics, and the Reasons of Allegory2 Poetics and Linguistics: Boundaries of Language in F. T. Marinetti and Gertrude Stein3 Poetics of Paradox: An Approach to Thus Spoke Zarathustra4 Poetics of the Manifold and the Hybrid: Poets between Cultures5 Poetica Cosmographica: An American Poet in Taiwan6 Poetics of Science: Poiesis, techne, logos7 Poetics of Translation as Migration8 The Canon(s) of World Literature: Premises to a Postcolonial, Transnational PoeticsBibliographyIndex of NamesSubject Index

Carravetta is a tireless explorer of the rhetorical fascinations of language and its struggles to break through into thought. This collection of essays is a battering intellectual whirlwind, storming through Dante and Nietzsche to meet passions seeking voice in our time.