Skepticism and Impersonality in Modern Poetry
Literary Experiments with Philosophical Problems
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
- Date of Publication 10 July 2025
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781350259645
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English 700
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Long description:
Modern literature is often described in terms of its impersonality. What is the significance of this fact?
In Skepticism and Impersonality, V. Joshua Adams follows the history of impersonality in modern poetry from Mallarmé and Eliot through to the present, engaging with work by major poets and critics, but also contemporary philosophers. Rather than seeing impersonality exclusively as a literary historical phenomenon, Adams argues that we should understand it as an attempt to address skeptical problems arising from the limitations of first-person experience.
Defending impersonality as a response to skeptical problems, including doubts about the publicity of our experiences, our knowledge of other minds, the capacity of our language to describe the world, the relationship between mind and body, and the fictionality and continuity of our sense of self, Adams analyzes what he calls "experiments in impersonality" as means of working through skeptical doubt. The writers discussed transform this doubt into art, whilst also ironizing it as corrosive and self-defeating. Ultimately this leads Adams to reinterpret literary impersonality as a therapeutic philosophical project.
Skepticism and Impersonality promises a new theoretical justification for our practical interest in literary texts, to renovate our conception of how those texts might do philosophical work, and to expand our sense of what a philosophical poem can be.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Emily Dickinson's "It": Privacy and Non-Conceptual Content
2. T.S. Eliot and Other Minds
3. Impersonality as Anti-Philosophy in Monsieur Teste
4. Elizabeth Bishop, Dramatic Monologue, and the Art of Impersonating Your Self
5. No Puzzle: The Self in James Merrill's "Lost in Translation"
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Skepticism and Impersonality in Modern Poetry: Literary Experiments with Philosophical Problems
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