Changed opinion as to flowers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23197339 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Juliet Fleming (New York University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Pages | 48-64 |
| Publication date | 2011-05-19 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Renaissance Paratexts (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/cbo9780511842429.004 |
| OpenAlex | W946694286 |
| ISBN | 9780511842429 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
The flower is one of the typical passions of the human spirit. One of the wheels of its contrivance. One of its routine metaphors . . .To liberate ourselves, let’s liberate the flower. Let’s change our minds about it . . .By some devolative revolution, Let us return it, safe from all definition, to what it is. – But what, then? – Quite obviously, a conceptacle.(Francis Ponge, ‘Changed Opinion as to Flowers’).
Aesthetics · Art · Literature · Passions · Interdisciplinary Cultural and Social Studies · Philosophy · Political Theology and Sovereignty · Rhetoric and Communication Studies
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2018 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |