Poetry and Opinion
€28.90
Product Information
| ISBN | 9781009549066 |
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| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Publishing Date | 23/04/2026 |
| Price (excl. tax) | €27.26 |
| Tax | €1.64 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €28.90 |
| Availability | 2 units in external warehouse |
Product Description
Identifying ourselves, others, writers, with their opinions—and taking the form of the opinion as the epitome of political engagement—we assert a picture of the self that ought to be scrutinized. Mass print generated, along with the railways, telegraph, information-relays national and global, as well as the development of specialized forms of technological, scientific, economic, and medical knowledge, a sea of discourse belying any vision of a cogent public sphere: disinformation is not a purely 21st century, internet phenomenon. Poetry helps us understand this situation. Appearing in verse, claims about reality have been characterized, or have self-characterized, as virtual. As such, Romantic and post-Romantic poetry makes perceptible other ways in which, in other precincts, utterance becomes virtualized. Sometimes, by the psychological turbulences of the citizen-as-creature, appropriating world events to the need to self-assert; sometimes, as a result of affective matrices that challenge the idea that we are the authors of our own opinions.