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John, Eileen (2013) Poetry and directions for thought. Philosophy and Literature, Volume 37 (Number 2). pp. 451-471. doi:10.1353/phl.2013.0029
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/phl.2013.0029
Abstract
Do poems provide “scripts” for reader’s thoughts? Kendall Walton’s account of poets as thoughtwriters, in which poems can serve to express readers’ thoughts without positing an expressive thinker in the poem, is considered from various angles. While it seems a minimal expressive thinker needs to be posited, this leaves open other questions about poems as the stuff of thought. Can poems be fully thought , and do readers take ownership of the thinking that poetry prompts? Elizabeth Bishop’s “At the Fishhouses” is discussed as a poem that allows the reader a chance to separate aspects of content and control of thought.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Philosophy and Literature | ||||
| Publisher: | The Johns Hopkins University Press | ||||
| ISSN: | 1086-329X | ||||
| Official Date: | 2013 | ||||
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| Volume: | Volume 37 | ||||
| Number: | Number 2 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 451-471 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.1353/phl.2013.0029 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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