Naming and Taming the Truth
Dana Gioia’s Transformative Poetry
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12948201 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Roxana Elena Doncu (0000-0003-1305-9397, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 26-48 |
| Publication date | 2021-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American, British and Canadian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1841-1487 • E-ISSN: 1841-964X |
| Publisher | De Gruyter Open (PUBLISHER • PL) |
| DOI | 10.2478/abcsj-2021-0003 |
| OpenAlex | W3189419829 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
This essay attempts to trace the ways in which Dana Gioiaʼs use of form relates to, and simultaneously differs from Romanticism, Modernism and postmodernism. His particular brand of formalism takes up the notion of a connection between truth and beauty, without presuming to identify one with the other, and, at the same time, resisting both the Modernist obsession with dissolution and fragmentariness and postmodernism’s skepticism towards grand narratives. Form becomes a coalescing agent, uniting different aspects and levels of reality, and narratives are instrumental in shaping both the individual and the social body. The power to name (point to and describe) and to tame (to translate dark or incomprehensible aspects of reality), inherent in language, is the means by which poetry shapes our social and cultural world
Aesthetics · Art · Beauty · Epistemology · Formalism (music · Literature · Narrative · Poetics · Poetry · Postmodernism · Romanticism · Skepticism · Sociology · Transformative learning · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Philosophy · Postmodernism in Literature and Education · Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |