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The status of poetry as an aesthetic object

  • Michael D. Hurley
Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 24. April 2008
Semiotica
Aus der Zeitschrift Band 2008 Heft 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.

Published Online: 2008-04-24
Published in Print: 2008-April

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