Incense and Insensibility: Austin on the ‘Non‐Seriousness’ of Poetry

In Severin Schroeder (ed.), Philosophy of Literature. Oxford, UK: Wiley‐Blackwell. pp. 90–111 (2010)
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incense and insensibility ‐ Austin on ‘Non‐seriousness’ of poetry   J. L. Austin, calling poetry ‘non‐serious’ ‐ sidelining it in his speech act theory   Asking what is at stake, for philosophers and poets ‐ Austin saying, poetry is ‘nonserious’   dividing ‘serious’ from ‘nonserious’ – poetry, as a ‘parasitic’ use of language, an ‘etiolation’   poetry, aspiring to be ‐ a serious use of language, neither parasitic nor etiolated   Austin's approach to poetry, distorted by professional antipathy ‐ averting, something of an aversion   Austin's antipathy towards poetry, being stronger ‐ more virulent than his professional aversion   Austin and poetry ‐ as ‘non‐standard’ use of language   poets arguing, right to feel offended ‐ Austin's use of ‘non‐serious’ intended it to be offensive   Austin, and stake being confusion ‐ What is actually at stake is, commitment and poetic integrity

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