Plurality and the Poetics of Self

Bruce Bond

• Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9783030187170
• eBook ISBN: 9783030187187
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism in Poetry
• Index: Literature

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.

Index

A

Affect

and experience

obscurity and clarification

repression of

and soul-body problem

Affection

Alienation

and connectivity

of consciousness

and creative act of writing poetry

and cultural appropriation

and the ego

of logos from first assumptions

and lyricism

from metaphysics

and objectivization

from the past

and self-affirmation

from the soul

See also Distance

Anti-centrism

See also Centering and centeredness

Anxieties

and creative sensibility

and the ego

and the existential self

of freedom

and infinity

and language of poetry

and media

and metaphor

and natural philosophy

and non-being

and the nuclear self

and phenomenology

and representation

and symbols

Appropriation

cultural

Artaud, Antoine

Artificial intelligence

Attention

and the ego

failure of

and mental force

and narcissism

rewards of

Authenticity

as action

and bad faith (inauthenticity)

and cultural appropriation

and destabilization

and the existential self

groundless dismissal of

and intuition

and objectivity

and the “poetic I,”

and poetic mimesis

and postmodern culture

and relativism

and the Romantic imagination

and subjectivity

and the unrepresented self

and volition

B

Bacon, Francis

Of Empire

Baudrillard, Jean

Beachy Quick, Dan

gentleness

“Portrait (After Acimboldo),”

Begley, Sharon

Belief

See also Faith

Bennett, Chad

“Theory of the Lyric,”

Bentham, Jeremy

Bernay, Edward

“Propaganda,”

Blake, William

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

Body, the

“A Dialogue between the Soul and the Body” (Marvell)

and the existential self

and identity construct

and identity stability

and lyric

as machine

as semiotic and immanent

in the soul

soul-body problem

Buddhism

C

Capitalism

Carroll, John

Centering and centeredness

anti-centrism

Christianity

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Biographia Literaria

“The Eolian Harp,”

on imagination

Commercials

Confessional poetry

Connectivity

and alienation

and imaginative affirmation

and privacies

Consumerism

Contrivance

Core self

Creativity and creative activity

and anxiety

and consciousness

creative agency

creative freedom

healing potential of

and imagination

and ontology

and otherness

poetry as self-creation

Cultural appropriation

Cultural crisis

Cultural criticism

Cultural erasure

Cultural shift

D

Deism

Derrida, Jacques

Dialectic

absence of

and authenticity

body-soul

and calling of poetry

and musicality

Dickinson, Emily

“The Soul selects her own Society,”

Distance

and the body

and the...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Front Matter
• The Broken Mirror
• Identity and Contingency
• The Metaphysics of Volition
• Ego: Structure, Complex, Drive
• The Existential Monad
• The Seer in the Seen
• Bodies, Souls, and the Poetry Between Them
• Original Consciousness
• Dynamics of the Transpersonal
• The Plural of I
• Back Matter