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Any effort toward a theoretical delineation of the role of poetry in literature implies a more general consideration of the role literature can and should play in the evolution of a postmodern social, political and esthetic consciousness. Literature that not only reflects change, but inspires it must be investigated, moreover, within the perspective of its fundamental constitution and poetry, as a literary event, reveals its function precisely to that degree that it reveals the conditions of its very existence.
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Calvin O. Schrag, ‘Phenomenology, Ontology and History in the Philosophy of Heidegger,’ in Phenomenology: The Philosophy of Edmund Husserl and Its Interpretation ed. Joseph J. Kockelmans (New York: Doubleday, 1967), p. 281.
Roland Barthes, cited in ‘Critical Factions/Critical Fictions,’ in Textual Strategies: Perpectives in Post-Structuralist Criticism ed. Josué V. Harari (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1979), p. 37.
Jacques Derrida, ‘Freud and the Scene of Writing,’ trans. Jeffrey Mehlman, Yale French Studies 48 (1972): 92; cited in Harari, p. 37.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Les Sciences de I’Homme et la Phénomenologie (Paris, n.d.), p. 42.
Jacques Garelli, La Gravitation Poétique trans. Lois Oppenheim (Paris: Mercure de France, 1966), p. 9.
For a most interesting consideration of this question of the movement of Logos into Topos see Garelli, Artaud et la Question du Lieu (Paris: José Corti, 1982).
Gianni Vattimo, ‘On the Way to Silence (Heidegger and the Poetic Word),’ trans. Daniel Scanlon, paper presented at the ‘Favorite Malice,’ an Italian-Ameican symposium on poetry and poetic theory held at New York University in March 1979, pp. 7–8.
Ibid.
Thomas E. Lewis, ‘Notes toward a Theory of the Referent,’ PMLA 94 (May 1979): 459.
Thomas E. Lewis, ‘Notes toward a Theory of the Referent,’ PMLA 94 (May 1979), p. 472.
Thomas E. Lewis, ‘Notes toward a Theory of the Referent,’ PMLA 94 (May 1979) (my italics).
Brief passages concerning the Lewis article are excerpted from a more complete analysis of the question in my essay ‘Ontological Reference and the Horizon of Meaning,’ Criticism fall 1982.
Ezra Pound, Gaudier-Brzeska: A Memoir (1916; reprint, London: New Directions, 1960), p. 82.
Ezra Pound, Gaudier-Brzeska: A Memoir (1916; reprint, London: New Directions, 1960), p. 84.
Ezra Pound, Gaudier-Brzeska: A Memoir (1916; reprint, London: New Directions, 1960), p. 86.
Garelli, La Gravitation poétique p. 188, trans. Lois Oppenheim; concluding chapter published as ‘Temporality, Imagery, and Unity’, in New Literary History 12 (Spring 1981):453–473.
Pound, Gaudier-Brzeska p. 81.
Donald Davie, Ezra Pound: Poet as Sculptor (New York: Oxford University Press, 1964), p. 55.
Cited in Davie, p. 15.
Garelli, La Gravitation poétique p. 9.
Pound, Gaudier-Brzeska p. 88.
Ibid., p. 137.
Ibid., p. 145.
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Oppenheim, L. (1984). The Field of Poetic Constitution. In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) The Existential Coordinates of the Human Condition: Poetic — Epic — Tragic. Analecta Husserliana, vol 18. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6315-3_4
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