Reading at the Limits of Poetic Form

Name: Reading at the Limits of Poetic Form
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Author: Jacob McGuinn
ISBN: 9780810146983

Dematerialization in Adorno, Blanchot, and Celan

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

AvJacob McGuinn

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Pushing the boundaries of critical reading and the role of objects in literature How does literary objecthood contend with the challenge of writing objects that emerge at an extreme limit of material presence? Jacob McGuinn delves into the ways literature writes this indeterminate presence in the context of pre- and post-’68 Paris, a vital moment in the history of criticism. The works of poet Paul Celan, philosopher Theodor Adorno, and writer Maurice Blanchot highlight how the complexities of reading such a dematerialized object are part of the indeterminacy of material itself. Indeterminate objects—glass, snow, walls, screens—are subjects Celan describes as existing in “meridian” space, while for Adorno and Blanchot, criticism not only responds to this indeterminacy but also takes it as its condition. Reading at the Limits of Poetic Form: Dematerialization in Adorno, Blanchot, and Celan shows how these readings simultaneously limit the object of criticism and outline alternative ways of thinking that lie between the models of critical formalism and historicism, ultimately revealing the possible materiality of literature in unrealized history, incomplete politics, and nondetermining thinking.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-05-15
Mått152 x 229 x 17 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor248
FörlagNorthwestern University Press
ISBN9780810146983

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AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction––Poetry, criticism, and indeterminacy1. Reading Indeterminacy: From poetic materiality to materialist aesthetics2. After Communication: Neutrality, fragmentation, and literary politics in the 1960s3. Disastrous Materiality: Neutrality and the “impossible real” in Blanchot’s fragmentary writing4. Progressive Impossibility: Reading the art object in Adorno5. Something in Poetry: Reading poetry’s material-immaterial6. The Figure of Snow: Elegiac readingConclusion––Legibility at the limits of materialityBibliography

“Jacob McGuinn is a scholar fully immersed in his field and speaking from it with great poise and authority. His conception of poetry as ‘immaterial materiality’ is subtle, rigorous, and rooted in a breadth and depth of command of the fields of modern European philosophy, poetics, and criticism.” - Josh Cohen, Goldsmiths, University of London “A valuable contribution to the understanding of poetry, in particular, to the evolving notion of critical reading and interpretation of poetry with regard to the idea of the indeterminate in poetic language and form.” - Krzysztof Ziarek, University at Buffalo, State University of New York

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