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'The book is structured like a spiderweb, hazarding hundreds of filament-like connections between passages of books that often have only a little history in common. The "impassioned discontinuous continuity" that Ghosh finds in Coleridge sets out the structure and ethos of this book. It shows that "meaningful communication" across cultures does not have to be a matter of common denominators and agreed-upon terms. Ghosh seeks "the way and mechanism to overcome the blinkered, absolutist, nonpluralist relativism that incommensurability legitimizes." He finds it in something he calls "trans-habit."... Spiderweb, after all, is stronger than an equal volume of steel-and the measure of this book is not its "solidity" (a term that seeks to reward predictability; "solid" often means "boring") but its tensile strength.The question trans-habit asks is, after all, whether it is possible for us to go beyond the horizon of our known and accepted references, whether we are free to change ourselves. This might be the core question of liberal democracy, but one unspoken and untheorized by those who take the person as the basis and center of rights, duties and will. Trans-habit has to do rather with the constitution and reconstitution of persons in circuits of behavior (including linguistic behavior). Its "inevitable momentum" is about changing the terms of knowledge. No one book can do that conclusively; but this book offers a proof of concept and an adventure, an experiment in changing families of thought.' Quoted from the Preface to the book by Haun Saussy, University Professor, University of Chicago 'Ranjan Ghosh poses a series of challenging questions about poetry, its methods and its manners, drawing on a striking range of intellectual and spiritual contexts, both eastern and western, and moving with enviable fluency between many of the greatest figures of the English literary tradition. A ranging and inclusive writer, Ghosh exemplifies in a highly individual way the imagination he singles out for notice in Coleridge -- 'a syncopation of contrary elements'. Professor Seamus Perry, University of Oxford

Poetics. --- Poetics --- Poetry --- Technique

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Poetics. --- Literatura. --- Poetry --- Technique

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Ein Gang durch die Kompendien der Poetik und Ästhetik erinnert zunächst an die Debatte um Lehr- und Lernbarkeit des poetischen Schreibens; in ihr manifestiert sich die Entstehung des modernen Literatursystems: Angesichts des Funktionsverlusts poetischer Regeln, Muster und Nachahmungsimperative konstituiert sich poetische Ausbildung und dichterisches Handeln schließlich im autobiographischen Schreiben. Lernen, genial sich selbst statt anderen zu folgen, lernen, Texte auf Lebensläufe zu beziehen, und lernen, durch autobiographische Kommentierung Textkontrolle und 'Überleben' bei der Nachwelt anzustreben: dies sind die Lehren jener Dichterautobiographien, die das 18. Jahrhundert hervorbringt, da Texte nicht mehr als gelehrte Handlungen gelesen werden.

European literature --- Poetics --- Poetics --- History and criticism. --- History --- History

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Edited by David Caplan, 'On Rhyme' collects essays by leading scholars from America and the United Kingdom. Like its subject, the essays on rhyme range broadly. They consider an array of topics and employ a number of approaches. Surveying the field, the authors examine rhyme in various historical periods (including the Renaissance, Augustan, Romantic, Modern and Contemporary eras) and in different genres (including poetry and song). Several consider how particular artists (such as the poets Robert Creeley, Emily Dickinson, and Edmund Spenser, and the Somali-born hip-hop artist K?naan) utilize rhyme. Others analyze the shifting attitudes toward rhyme that characterize particular historical periods. Close readings extend insights from linguistics, philosophy, and literary criticism. A selection of poems adds to the interdisciplinary approach as poets offer their own perspectives on the technique. Suggesting its main emphases, the book is divided into six sections: Rhyme in Modern and Contemporary American Poetry, Rhyme across Time Periods, Rhyme in Earlier Periods, Poetry Portfolio, Hip Hop and Rhyme, and Rhyme in Other Texts.

Rimes --- Rhyme --- Poetics --- Poétique --- Poétique --- Rimes.

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"Condition Red collects writing by one of America's most gifted and revered poets, Yusef Komunyakaa. While themes from his earlier prose collection, Blue Notes, run through Condition Red, this volume expresses a greater sense of urgency about the human condition and the role of the artist. Condition Red includes his powerful letter to Poetry magazine, asserting that "we writers (artists) cannot forget that we are responsible for what we conjure and embrace through language, whether in essays, novels, plays, poems, or songs." Also included are essays and interviews on:coming home to Bogalusa, Louisiana; the influence of religion on black poetry; language and eroticism; the visual artist Floyd Tunson; and the poets Robert Hayden, Walt Whitman, Clarence Major, and Etheridge Knight."--

Poets, American --- Poetry --- Poetics. --- Authorship. --- Komunyakaa, Yusef