Philosophy as Verse-Performance: five poems and a formalist prospectus

Performance Philosophy

Christopher Norris¹ 

[1] Cardiff University;

关键词: formalism;    meter;    literary theory;    Mallarmé;    modernism;    poetics;    poetry;    post-structuralism;    rhyme;    Wittgenstein;   

DOI  :  10.21476/PP.2017.22131

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This article consists of five poems and an introductory essay. The poems are intended on the one hand to make a case for the currently underrated virtues of poetic formalism, i.e., for the revival of rhyme and meter as aspects of poetic practice. On the other they argue for a distinctly philosophical mode of poetry that embraces the values of conceptual or rational discourse as against a romantic-modernist conception premised on the intrinsic superiority of lyric, metaphor, symbol, analogy, and suchlike touchstone values. These issues are laid out programmatically in the opening essay and developed in a more performative as well as formal way in the five poems.

【 授权许可】

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