Diderot's Encyclopedic Poetics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11780558 |
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| Authors | Andrew H Clark (0000-0002-5241-5975, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 99-111 |
| Publication date | 2012-02-26 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Eighteenth century/ The eighteenth century (Lubbock, Tex. Online) (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0193-5380 • E-ISSN: 1935-0201 |
| Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/ecy.2012.0009 |
| OpenAlex | W2046144005 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
In this essay, I argue that Diderot's writing on Vernet in the Salons becomes a place in which Diderot puts forth an encyclopedic poetics that transforms the end of the poetic and what WJT Mitchell calls "ekphrastic impossibility" into a kind of counter-poetics, in which the isolated list, the extreme structure, becomes a form of poetry, a conceptualist poetics of knowledge that rethinks categories and is epistemologically specific. In doing so I argue against Hegelian readings of Diderot's text, such as that of Norman Bryson in Word and Image who sees the contradictions of modes in Diderot's writing on Vernet as representing the end of the poetic and the triumph of reason
Art · Epistemology · Hegelianism · Impossibility · Literature · Poetics · Poetry · Historical and Literary Analyses · Historical and Literary Studies · Philosophy · Rousseau and Enlightenment Thought
| Highly cited | No |
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