Canons and Wisdoms by Albert Cook 9781512801293 1512801291

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• ISBN 10: 1512801291
• ISBN 13: 9781512801293
• Author: Albert Cook 

In Canons and Wisdoms, Albert Cook addresses what is arguable the most profound question about poetry and literature: What is its human value? Cook claims that the value lies in the special yield of wisdom rich, full, and not available in other forms of human discourse. This somewhat traditional position is reinforced by the related arguments of such philosophers as Adorno and Heidegger, and by other works in Renaissance poetry and modern poetry and fiction, where the sense of the work becomes clearer when it is seen in the light of such a question.

Cook addresses what can be claimed for poetry and literature after all due allowance has been made for the relativity of canons, the subjectivity of the literary experience, and the subtle and comprehensive effects of received expectations. Such questions have dominated recent discussions about the value of literature. The nature of all human utterance argues for its being aimed at social inclusion, formalized as a canon, even though such a notion must remain ideal.

Canons and Wisdoms is an eloquent and original contribution to the ongoing debate about the canon. It is the work of an experienced, erudite, and individualistic scholar working at the intersection of philosophy and literary theory and criticism.

Table contents:

1. The Canon of Poetry and the Wisdom of Poetry
2. “Most Take All”: The Good and the Beautiful in Herbert’s Temple
3. Heidegger and the Wisdom of Poetry
4. Finalities of Utterance and Modalities of Expression
5. Sound, Sense, and Religion in the Dialogized Context of Donne’s Poetry
6. Wisdom and Ethics

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