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The status of poetry as an aesthetic object

Published/Copyright: April 24, 2008
Semiotica
From the journal Volume 2008 Issue 169

Abstract

Taking back-bearings from Plato, this paper considers the way in which poetry has been categorized as different in kind from the other sister arts specifically in respect of its employment of ‘signes artificiels.’ It is argued that poetry's status as an aesthetic object ought not to be weighed in the balance between its apparent artificiality and its naturalness as a system of signs, but must instead be understood as both more culturally-historically determined and also simultaneously more cognitively determining than has generally been admitted in the tradition of philosophical aesthetics or the praxis of literary criticism.

Keywords:: poetry; versification; prosody; linguistics; aesthetics
Published Online: 2008-04-24
Published in Print: 2008-April

© 2008 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, D-10785 Berlin

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https://doi.org/10.1515/SEM.2008.025
Keywords for this article
poetry; versification; prosody; linguistics; aesthetics

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  2. Imitation, intertextuality, and hyperreality in U.S. higher education
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  6. Application of Peircean symbol to symbol-mediated dialogic interpreting activity
  7. Semiotic phenomenology and the ‘dialectical approach’ to intercultural communication: Paradigm crisis and the actualities of research practice
  8. The polysemy of the sign: From quantum computing to the garden of forking paths
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  10. Compound constructions: A reply to Bundgaard et al.
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  12. Semiotics unbounded: An editorial comment
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