La deuxième Grande Conférence de l'année organisée par les Archives Henri Poincaré - Philosophie et Recherches sur les Sciences et les Technologies (AHP-PReST, Université de Lorraine/Université de Strasbourg) aura lieu le mercredi 23 octobre 2019.
Elle accueillera l'exposé suivant :
"The Experience of Poetry"
Par Peter Lamarque, professeur à l'Université de York au Royaume Uni
Résumé :
The lecture explores how the idea of experience might apply to literature in general and poetry in particular. Any kind of sensory experience seems at best marginal, for example, to the novel. To speak of the experience of a novel seems not to be speaking of sensory experience. Yet the aesthetic—certainly aesthetic experience—seems closely tied to the sensory. Do we then mean something different when talking of experience in the literary realm? Maybe.
But poetry lends itself more readily to talk of experience, aesthetic experience in particular and even sensory experience. Is not much of the pleasure of poetry bound up with the sounds, rhythms and textures of poetic language? And is that not both sensory and aesthetic? Although this might seem incontestable it also hints at a kind of formalism in the aesthetic appraisal of poetry. If our focus is on sounds and rhythms what becomes of poetic subject matter? Is that excluded from aesthetic appraisal? That seems undesirable in itself, especially so for those who promote the indivisibility of form and content in poetry. Can form-content unity in a poem afford aesthetic experience? If so, how is that explained? If not, then are we back to a different kind of experience (more like the novel?) in associating poetry with aesthetic experience?
Les Grandes conférences sont organisées par les Archives Henri Poincaré (Université de Lorraine), l'Institut de Recherches Interdisciplinaires sur les enjeux des sciences et des technologies (Université de Strasbourg), le Département de Philosophie de l'Université de Lorraine à Nancy et la Maison des sciences de l'homme Lorraine.
