Something Speaks to Me
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-83031-5 (ISBN)
Criticism begins when we put down a book to tell someone about it. It is what we do when we face a work or event that bowls us over and makes us scramble for a response. As Michel Chaouli argues, criticism involves three moments: Something speaks to me. I must tell you about it. But I don’t know how. The heart of criticism, no matter its form, lies in these surges of thoughts and feelings. Criticism arises from the fundamental need to share what overwhelms us.
We tend to associate criticism with scholarship and journalism. But Chaouli is not describing professional criticism, but what he calls “poetic criticism”—a staging ground for surprise, dread, delight, comprehension, and incomprehension. Written in the mode of a philosophical essay, Something Speaks to Me draws on a wide range of writers, artists, and thinkers, from Kant and Schlegel to Merleau-Ponty, Bachelard, Barthes, and Cavell. Reflecting on these dimensions of poetic experience, Something Speaks to Me is less concerned with joining academic debates than communicating the urgency of criticism.
Michel Chaouli is professor of German and comparative literature at Indiana University Bloomington, where he also directs the Center for Theoretical Inquiry in the Humanities. His recent publications include Thinking with Kant’s “Critique of Judgment” and the coedited volume Poetic Critique: Encounters with Art and Literature.
To Start
Part 1. Something Speaks to Me (Intimacy)
Feeling the Pulse of the Text
Some Examples
Poetic Criticism, an Essay
Roland Barthes Has Sushi
What Does the Text Want from Me?
The Impersonality of Intimacy
The Texture of Intimacy
Productive Distrust
Learning to Unlearn
Naïveté
Intimacy, Self-Taught
The Call of Significance
The Authority of the Poetic
Being in History
Being in the Same History (Tradition)
A Bastard of History
Part 2. I Must Tell You about It (Urgency)
Understanding and Making
Making the New by Remaking the Old
Learning Not to Conclude
Tact
Playing It by Ear
Poetic Making Conserves as It Renews
Poetic Power
Philological Disarmament
Hearing That We May Speak
Second Thoughts
Self-Reference versus Urgency
Epiphanies
The Intense Life of Language
What and How
The Knot of Experience
Making Freedom
Part 3. But I Don’t Know How (Opacity)
Shadow in Plain Sight
The Difficulty of Criticism
The Strange Voice
Aristotle versus Plato
What in Technique Is More Than Technique
What Kind of Thing Is the Poetic Thing?
The Work of Art versus the Poetic Work
The Eye of the Work, the Eye of the Beholder
How to Leap Over One’s Own Shadow
Why Non-Knowing Is the Primal Condition of Poetry
Genius
Criticism Is Making
The Poet of the Poet
Falling
The Difficulty, and the Ecstasy, of Reality
Is Poetry a Deflection from Life?
In Poetry, Non-Knowing Is a Primal Condition
The Social Force of the Impersonal
To Be Continued . . .
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 18.01.2024 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 313 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-226-83031-4 / 0226830314 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-226-83031-5 / 9780226830315 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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