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9780295987590

The Offense of Poetry

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  • ISBN13:

    9780295987590

  • ISBN10:

    0295987596

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2007-11-30
  • Publisher: Univ of Washington Pr

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Summary

There is something offensive and scandalous about poetry, judging by the number of attacks on it and defenses of it written over the centuries. Poetry, Hazard Adams argues, exists to offend-not through its subject matter but through the challenges it presents to the prevailing view of what language is for.

Author Biography

Hazard Adams is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature, University of Washington, and founder and honorary senior fellow of the School of Criticism and Theory

Table of Contents

Prefacep. ix
Introduction: Scandal and Offensep. 3
Historical: Attack and Defense
Attackp. 29
Defensep. 63
Theoretical: Four Offenses
Gesturep. 95
Dramap. 113
Fictionp. 129
Tropep. 141
Critical: Studies in Antithetical Offense
Vico and Blake: Poetic Logic as Offensep. 161
Blake and Joyce: Friends in Offensep. 179
Joyce Cary's Antitheticality and His Politics of Experiencep. 193
Seamus Heaney's Criticism and the Antitheticalp. 215
The Double Offense of Great Bad Poetry; or, McGonagall Apotheosizedp. 233
Epilogue: Reminders Not Quite Gentlep. 261
Indexp. 265
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