Judith Thompson (ed.), John Thelwall: Selected Poetry and Poetics

An elusive, trace-like entity, ‘poetic’ presents itself in the form of an intangible and yet indispensable relation, or relatedness, in the overall dynamics of information transformation. Paradoxical in nature and function, its ineffability forms the very condition of expressivity in poetry and poetics. ‘Poetic’, as such, also gains popularity and practicality in popular culture at large where and when it becomes articulated, tailored pragmatically to the specificities of any given activity. As an epochal phenomenon, this pragmatic rendition of ‘poetic’ takes the more pronounced form of rhetoric, which appropriates ‘poetic’, and which is resorted to by the contending smaller narratives in the postmodern world as their means for their respective identity formations and legitimations. In the context of the contemporary poetry scene, this rhetorical appropriation of ‘poetic’ manifests itself eloquently in the three areas of rhetorical situation, constitutive rhetoric, and rhetorical styles, which reveal the mechanisms of a soft interpellation that grants the contemporary poets their identity and legitimacy through their own performative confirmation.

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John Thelwall: A Free Man Confronts the Law

Romanticism ◽

10.3366/rom.2010.0002 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 16 (2) ◽

pp. 115-119

Author(s):

Geoffrey Bindman

Keyword(s):

The Law ◽

John Thelwall

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Politico-Sentimentality: John Thelwall, Literary Production and Critique of Capital in the 1790s

Romanticism ◽

10.3366/rom.1997.3.1.35 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 35-52 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

ANDREW MCCANN

Keyword(s):

Literary Production ◽

John Thelwall

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Introduction

10.1093/oso/9780198827108.003.0001 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Rembert Lutjeharms

Keyword(s):

Sixteenth Century ◽

Political History ◽

The Political ◽

Poetry And Poetics ◽

Sanskrit Poetics ◽

History Of ◽

Sanskrit Poetry ◽

The Way

This chapter introduces the main themes of the book—Kavikarṇapūra, theology, Sanskrit poetry, and Sanskrit poetics—and provides an overview of each chapter. It briefly highlights the importance of the practice of poetry for the Caitanya Vaiṣṇava tradition, places Kavikarṇapūra in the (political) history of sixteenth‐century Bengal and Orissa as well as sketches his place in the early developments of the Caitanya Vaiṣṇava tradition (a topic more fully explored in Chapter 1). The chapter also reflects more generally on the nature of both his poetry and poetics, and highlights the way Kavikarṇapūra has so far been studied in modern scholarship.

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Radically Recalcitrant Radio

Resonance ◽

10.1525/res.2020.1.1.6 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 6-14

Author(s):

Allen S. Weiss

Keyword(s):

French Language ◽

Poetry And Poetics ◽

Antonin Artaud

What would it mean to consider the last works of Antonin Artaud, including his major radio piece, To Have Done With the Judgment of God—written after his return to language following years of aphasia during his incarceration in the psychiatric asylum of Rodez and upon his return to Paris just before his death—as poetry? Based upon a veritable rhetoric of repulsion and abjection, effecting an obsessive resistance to readability, Artaud utilized numerous tactics to reject the reader: unmentionable blasphemy, putrid scatology, unintelligible glossolalia, hideous violence, abhorrent politics, obscene curses, unfathomable contradictions, bewildering lists, inexorable negations, disorienting syntax, unsettling non sequiturs, undefinable neologisms, uncanny repetitions. Were these writings to be inserted into the French poetic canon, they would necessitate a radical reconsideration of poetry and poetics, indeed of the French language itself, based upon the nihilistic powers of performance and performativity.

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