A Defense of Poetry: Reflections on the Occasion of Writing
Book Details
Author(s)Paul Fry
PublisherStanford University Press
ISBN / ASIN0804725314
ISBN-139780804725316
MarketplaceUnited Kingdom 🇬🇧
Description
This book argues that literature can be defined—pragmatist and historicist arguments notwithstanding—and that in its definition its unique value can be discovered. The author identifies literature ontologically as a sign of the preconceptual, as the "ostensive moment" that discloses neither the purpose nor the structure of existence but existence itself, revealed in its nonhuman register.
