Poetry, Critique, Imitation

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. What Is Poetic Critique? 1
4. Why Adding ‘Poetic’ to ‘Critique’ Adds Nothing to Critique 7
5. Schlegel’s Words, Rightly Used 19
6. Storytelling and Forgetfulness 35
7. Poetry, Critique, Imitation 45
8. “Echo Reconciles” 57
9. On Not Forcing the Question: Criticism and Playing Along 65
10. La Chambre Poétique 79
11. The Silence of the Concepts (in Meillassoux’s After Finitude and Gottlob Frege) 105
12. Theater as Critical Praxis: Interruption and Citability 125
13. Historicism’s Forms: The Aesthetics of Critique 145
14. Poetic Criticism and the Work of Fiction: Goethe, Joyce, and Coetzee 155
15. Surface, Distance, Depth: The Text and its Outside 175
16. Contributors 203