Poetry's Knowing Ignorance by Professor Joseph Acquisto (English) Paperback Book

Description: Poetry's Knowing Ignorance by Professor Joseph Acquisto, Joseph Acquisto This book "shows, through an examination of French poetry, how it is [a] dialogue in response to a constant questioning, to an answer-turned-question ... continues to blur the boundary between poetry and writing about poetry, between poetry and criticism, and between poetry and other kinds of experience"-- FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description What kind of knowledge, if any, does poetry provide? Poets make poems, but they also make meaning and craft a kind of learned and creative ignorance as they provide infinitely revisable answers to the question of what poetry is. That question of poetrys definition invites broader ones about the relationship of poetry to other lived experience. Poetry thus implies something like a way of life that is resistant to definitive statements and conclusions, and the creation of communities of readers and writers that live in ever-renewed questioning.To resist concluding is to embrace a kind of productive ignorance, a knowledge that is first and foremost aware of poetic knowledges own limits. Poetrys Knowing Ignorance shows, through an examination of French poetry, how it is this dialogue in response to a constant questioning, to an answer-turned-question, that continues to blur the boundary between poetry and writing about poetry, between poetry and criticism, and between poetry and other kinds of experience. Author Biography Joseph Acquisto is Professor of French at the University of Vermont, USA. He is the author or editor of seven books, including Reading Baudelaire with Adorno: Subjectivity, Dissonance, Transcendence (Bloomsbury, 2023), Proust, Music, and Meaning: Theories and Practices of Listening in the Recherche (2017), and The Fall Out of Redemption: Writing and Thinking Beyond Salvation in Baudelaire, Cioran, Fondane, Agamben, and Nancy (Bloomsbury, 2015). Table of Contents Note on TranslationsIntroduction: "That Key That You Must Always Keep on Losing"1 Knowledge, Truth, and Ignorance in Nineteenth-Century Poetry (Hugo and Baudelaire)2 Saying the Ineffable: Poetry is Poetry (From the Romantics to Valéry)3 Non-knowledge, Limit, and Productive Impossibility (Bataille and Blanchot)4 "Moving forth from uncertainty all the same" (Jaccottet and Maulpoix)5 Poetry, Community, RelationNotesBibliographyIndex Review In a study that is at once thorough and highly engaging, Acquisto convincingly demonstrates how poetry has come to transform modern doubt into a creative force--an endless movement toward understanding that, in refusing certitude, is the richer for remaining open to possibility. His concluding reflections on the potential for fostering community are especially timely in this regard, in an era of informational impatience and deadlocked political discourse. * Scott Shinabargar, Professor of French and Chair, Department of World Languages and Cultures, Winthrop University, USA *This is not just a brilliant book that unravels French poetics for specialists and non-specialists alike, but one that gives us invaluable heuristic tools--what Chamoiseau called poecepts--to approach most other literary traditions related to modernism, across cultures and languages. Joseph Acquisto gracefully elucidates how French thought (Bataille, Blanchot, Nancy, and Rancière in particular) is conveyed through (and intertwined with) poetics and how poetrys most profound knowledge is also poetrys refusal to impose itself as an absolute form of knowing: Poetry is thus that song that you cannot grab, that space where you cannot dwell, that key you must always keep on losing (Philippe Jaccottet). * Hugues Azerad, Fellow and College Lecturer in French, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, UK *Acquistos sustained meditation on modern poetrys productive, rather than aporetic, engagement with ignorance delivers a surprise: self-reflexivity, in the form of poetrys restless self-definitional impulse, connects, rather than disconnects, poetry and the world. This incisive study is as deeply-searching as the poetic works it reads. * Claire Chi-ah Lyu, Associate Professor of French, University of Virginia, USA *What emerges ... from these nuanced and thoughtful readings of prose essays on poetry is a persuasive narrative of how a certain strand of philosophical thinking in France developed an idea of poetry as the site of an endless questioning. What emerges ... from these nuanced and thoughtful readings of prose essays on poetry is a persuasive narrative of how a certain strand of philosophical thinking in France developed an idea of poetry as the site of an endless questioning. * Modern Language Review * Promotional Examines the role of productive ignorance in defining poetry and its relation to subjectivity in 19th- and 20th-century French writings on poetry. Review Quote This is not just a brilliant book that unravels French poetics for specialists and non-specialists alike, but one that gives us invaluable heuristic tools--what Chamoiseau called poecepts--to approach most other literary traditions related to modernism, across cultures and languages. Joseph Acquisto gracefully elucidates how French thought (Bataille, Blanchot, Nancy, and Ranci Promotional "Headline" Examines the role of productive ignorance in defining poetry and its relation to subjectivity in 19th- and 20th-century French writings on poetry. Feature New insights into the changing ways poets and other writers have defined poetry in the modern period Details ISBN1501378376 Pages 224 Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 1501378376 ISBN-13 9781501378379 Format Paperback Publication Date 2021-03-25 DEWEY 841.009 Author Joseph Acquisto Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc UK Release Date 2021-03-25 Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States NZ Release Date 2021-03-25 US Release Date 2021-03-25 Edited by Claire Webster Birth 1935 Affiliation Winchester College, UK Position Classics Teacher Qualifications R.N., B.S.N., Ocn Imprint Bloomsbury Academic USA Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2021-03-24 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:131418494;

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