Plurality and the Poetics of Self

• Main Author: Bond, Bruce (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Poetry.; Literature-Philosophy.; Semiotics.; Self.; Identity (Psychology).; Poetry and Poetics.; Literary Theory.; Self and Identity.
• Physical Description: V, 123 p. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783030187187
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-18718-7

Plurality and the Poetics of Self investigates the words "I" and "self" as suggestive of eight territories of meaning. Via poetry's lens into language and its limits, Bruce Bond explores the notion of self as identity, volitional agent, ego, existential monad, subjectivity, ontological origin, soul, and transpersonal psyche. Taking poetic meaning as our common currency, the book emphasizes the critical role of the un-representable and how embattled and confused assumptions threaten ever deeper alienation from one another and ourselves.