The Elusiveness of Poetic Meaning

In Severin Schroeder (ed.), Philosophy of Literature. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 24–46 (2010)
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elusiveness of poetic meaning   poetic meaning, centring on relation of form and content   shift from ‘meaning’ in poetry ‐ to ‘content,’ being promoted   content‐identity in poetry ‐ ‘interest‐relative’ no absolute answer, independent of interests of questioner   ‘Elusiveness of Poetic Meaning’ ‐ meaning of poems being elusive, eluding adequate paraphrase   mistakes of naïve formalist and naïve content reductionist ‐ confusion between substance and form and between subject and poem   subject‐as‐realised‐in‐the‐poem and the‐mode‐of‐realisation‐of‐the‐subject‐in‐the‐poem   identifying poetry, on more than ‐ just linguistic or textual facts   poetry identified, not linguistically but through conventions ‐ relating participants, poets and readers in practice   meaning in poetry, fine‐grained and context sensitive to a degree

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