Johanna Winant
Biographic Data
| ID | 1376162 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Johanna Winant |
| GIVEN NAMES | Johanna |
| FAMILY NAME | Winant |
| SIGNATURE | WINANT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | West Virginia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Dickinson’s felicity
This essay reads Emily Dickinson's poem that begins ‘Tell all the truth but tell it slant’ alongside J. L. Austin's How to Do Things with Words to argue that Dickinson identifies some criteria for a speech act’s felicity that Austin suggests or gestures towards, and this in turn clarifies how both performative utterance and poetry are effective. Austin's argument seems to run aground partway through his lectures as he admits that he cannot descri…
Walt Whitman's Formalism
In this article, the author argues that we should understand Walt Whitman's catalog as a poetic form that is also a logical form - enumerative induction. Whitman's catalogs - his characteristic technique of generating long lists - have long been recognized as central to his poetics. The list, or enumeration, is also the most basic form of inductive reasoning. By recognizing that Whitman reasons logically through his poetic form, not only is the c…
Explanation in Composition
Gertrude Stein’s experimental and more widely-read poetry, fiction, and lectures participate in a philosophical conversation about explanation. Her novel Q.E.D., her poem “An Elucidation,” and her lecture “Composition as Explanation,” show how Stein theorizes the possibility and the problems of explaining based on inductive reasoning. Stein endorses inductive reasoning, using facts alone, as the basis of an explanation, although she is also aware…
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Explanation in Composition
Gertrude Stein’s experimental and more widely-read poetry, fiction, and lectures participate in a philosophical conversation about explanation. Her novel Q.E.D., her poem “An Elucidation,” and her lecture “Composition as Explanation,” show how Stein theorizes the possibility and the problems of explaining based on inductive reasoning. Stein endorses inductive reasoning, using facts alone, as the basis of an explanation, although she is also aware…
Walt Whitman's Formalism
In this article, the author argues that we should understand Walt Whitman's catalog as a poetic form that is also a logical form - enumerative induction. Whitman's catalogs - his characteristic technique of generating long lists - have long been recognized as central to his poetics. The list, or enumeration, is also the most basic form of inductive reasoning. By recognizing that Whitman reasons logically through his poetic form, not only is the c…
Dickinson’s felicity
This essay reads Emily Dickinson's poem that begins ‘Tell all the truth but tell it slant’ alongside J. L. Austin's How to Do Things with Words to argue that Dickinson identifies some criteria for a speech act’s felicity that Austin suggests or gestures towards, and this in turn clarifies how both performative utterance and poetry are effective. Austin's argument seems to run aground partway through his lectures as he admits that he cannot descri…
Poetry (3 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Art (1 works) · Composition (language (1 works) · Contingency (1 works) · Conversation (1 works) · Deductive reasoning (1 works) · Digital Humanities and Scholarship (1 works) · Epistemology (1 works) · French Literature and Poetry (1 works)