âOne Kind of Knowledgeâ: Poetic Language, Human Being, and Immanent Truth

Johanna Skibsrud

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Chapter 9 âOne Kind of Knowledgeâ: Poetic Language, Human Being, and Immanent Truth

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Abstract: This essay explores the intimate connection between thought, knowledge, and faith within Muriel Rukeyserâs poetic discourse. I will contend that as both poetry and philosophy have only two materials with which to grapple: language and the perceivable reality it has been developed to represent, there is no way of categorically separating the intentions and directions of philosophy and poetry, let alone their results. However, where philosophyâas Giorgio Agamben has pointedâseeks for language to adhere definitively to meaning, poetry seeks to reveal a space of immanence between the re-presentation of the thing and the thing itself. This is achieved, I will argue, through the exploitation of the gap between objective reality and its representation, a gap that is fundamental to language itself.

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Literature and the Encounter with Immanence

Series:Â Value Inquiry Book Series, Volume: 298Â andÂ Philosophy, Literature, and Politics, Volume: 298

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004311930

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 24 May 2017

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- Literature and Cultural Studies
- Philosophy
  - General
  - Aesthetics & Cultural Theory

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