The Poetry of Knowledge and the 'Two Cultures'

• Main Author: Fitch, John G. (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, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
• Subjects: Poetry.; Poetry and Poetics.

This book argues that poetry is compatible with systematic knowledge including science, and indeed inherent in it; it also discusses particular poems that engage with such knowledge, including those of Lucretius, Vergil, and Vita Sackville-West. The book argues that there are substantial similaritie...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Unity in Knowledge; Eros and the Cosmological Urge
• 2. Unity in Poetry
• 3. The Death of Objectivism; Constructivism and Implication
• 4. Viewpoints in Poetry: Hesiod, Sackville-West, Vergil
• 5. The Fascination of Knowledge. Natural Creativity, Time's Arrow, and Reciprocity
• 6. Knowledge as a Story; Bodily Knowledge, Emotional and Aesthetics Components; Knowledge and Information
• 7. Acquisition of Language and Knowledge. Logicial Positivism and Structural Linguistics
• 8. Metaphor in Cognition, Poetry and Science
• 9. Pleasure as the Heart of Poetry and Science: Lucretius
• 10. Thinking in Poetry: Heidegger on Memorialising and Dis-closure; Vergil and Comprehensiveness
• 11. Dualism and Duel-ism: Kant and the Separation of Poetry from 'Pure' Reason
• 12. The Two Cultures; the Strangeness of Knowledge; the Demand for Originality
• 13. Epilogue: Three Poems of Knowledge.