Just some notes on my reading today
From literature theory's point of view to look at poetry as a form of art, and why was it so special.
The lecture starts from Plato's definition that saying the poets are liars.
But Aristotle argues that Poet does not interpret the world as it is, but the way it should be.
Beauty is the form of the purposiveness of an object, so far as it perceived in it,
structure, organism, purposive, an aesthetic object can be purposeful.
Oscar wilde - all art is quite useless - it is an unique thing
we don't have to have interest in it in order to appreciate it, or in the sense of owning a company.
we can be objective about it, we can be distance ourselves from our subjective of wants and unwants ..like and dislike. We can co exist with it in a happy and constructive way. that is good for both of us.
the recognition of our own value.
the self efficiency of our own art.
it is not a serving science expression merely to represent things than other in itself.
our capacity of being disinterested in
a way of acknowledging the freedom that existence that i am free that the things are free from my intructmental interest in that.
serving nothing - autonomous
sustains and keeps bringing back into
simply for its own sake - Kant "Art of art's own sake.
new criticism - a school of the idea that the indecent status of the work of art/ it means the work of art can be appreciated within the complicity.
the experience called BEAUTY is as it is beyond the power of ethical world precisely as it is beyond the animal passion.
ethical will / animal passion = grounded in passion.
by the advertise / by the moral reason ---- the other category (judgement?)
naked and nude (the semi conscious way/ that a category of aesthetic judgement)
wimsatt - the romantic understanding the literature
romantic - the poem is an expression of some passion or profound genius, working its way into a form, but the important is its expression.
the meaning/ the subject matter - the way in which the reader can interpret the meaning.
a põem is not and an expression but an independent object with self contained meaning.
The success or failure of a poem depends on the realisation of the meaning. if the meaning is not clear in the poem, then we judge the poem as a failure, if we respect the autonomy in the poem, then we don't appeal to the authorial intension. Hence, the design or the attention of the author is neither available or desirable as a judge of a work of literary art.
it is not a representation of the things they are but the things they should be.
all literature is in implication - a poem.
counter- intuitive: in the history of word.
