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"Locating poetry in a philosophy of the everyday, Brett Bourbon continues a tradition of attention to logic in everyday utterances through Wittgenstein, Austin, Quine, and Cavell, arguing that poems are events of form, not just collections of words, which shape everyone's lives. Poems taught in class are formalizations of the everyday poems we live amidst, albeit unknowingly. Bourbon resurrects these poems to construct an anthropology of form that centers everyday poems as events or interruptions within our lives. Expanding our understanding of what a poem is, this book argues that poems be…
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2 editions- Other · English · 2023Bloomsbury Academic & Professional · 200 pages · 9781350265509
- Other · English · 2022Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 240 pages · 9781350265462
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