Ornamental aesthetics [electronic resource] : the poetry of attending in Thoreau, Dickinson, and Whitman / Theo Davis.

9780190467531 (electronic book)

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.

English

1 online resource (245 pages)

10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190467517 doi

PS217.A35 D38 2016eb

811.309357

This work argues that ornamental aesthetics are central to the writing of Thoreau, Dickinson, and Whitman. It explores the stakes of such an ornamental aesthetics through a parallel investigation of the ornamental aspects of Heidegger's phenomenological philosophy. It advances a new theory of ornament as a practice of attending, honoring, and noticing, in contrast to more familiar theories in which materiality, handcrafting, or historical grounding are emphasized.

This work argues that ornamental aesthetics are central to the writing of Thoreau, Dickinson, and Whitman. It explores the stakes of such an ornamental aesthetics through a parallel investigation of the ornamental aspects of Heidegger's phenomenological philosophy. It advances a new theory of ornament as a practice of attending, honoring, and noticing, in contrast to more familiar theories in which materiality, handcrafting, or historical grounding are emphasized.

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