Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2015
Published In
Philosophy Of Poetry
Abstract
This chapter demonstrates the importance of close reading and criticism to the philosophy of poetry. Its reading of Ingeborg Bachman’s ‘Böhmen liegt am Meer’ explores the extent to which the poem is exemplary of the distinctive achievements of lyric poetry. The poem provides an object study in how the lyric allows the human voice to pursue, and at times acquire, expressive freedom. The various sonic, affective, rhythmic, figurative, and expressive devices of poetry account for why its products are not merely lovely aesthetic objects but exemplary of the ‘imaginative economy of human life’. What lyric that aspires to this status shows us is the unique claim poetry has to providing what Stendhal called the promesse de bonheur.
Keywords
intersubjective fluency, overdetermination, expressivity, plenipotentiary, bordering effects
Published By
Oxford University Press
Editor(s)
J. Gibson
Recommended Citation
Richard Thomas Eldridge.
(2015).
"“To Think Exactly And Courageously”: Poetry, Ingeborg Bachmann’s Poetics, And Her Bohemia Poem".
Philosophy Of Poetry.
232-250.
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199603671.003.0012
https://works.swarthmore.edu/fac-philosophy/268
Comments
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