EXPLAINER: Poetic Artifice -- w/ Gareth Farmer

Dr Gareth Farmer (University of Bedfordshire) joins me to discuss Veronica Forrest-Thomson's theory of poetry, and particularly her book, Poetic Artifice.

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(1) Veronica Forrest-Thomson, Poetic Artifice • difficulty • Drew Milne • J. H. Prynne (2) Gareth Farmer, Veronica Forrest-Thomson: Poet on the Periphery • Jonathan Culler (4) Roman Jakobson, poetic function (5) artifice (6) meaning • external world • mimesis (7) naturalisation (9) artifice • New Criticism • Well Wrought Urn (10) platonic form • formal features (11) Jakobson • Ferdinand de Saussure • structuralism (12) image-complex • disconnected image-complex • Forrest-Thomson, 'The Separate Planet' • William Empson (13) dominant of the poem • metaphysical conceit (14) disconnected image-complex (15) Deleuze & Guattari, the rhizome (16) John Ashbery (17) discursive imagery • empirical imagery • Brian McHale (18) intertextuality • reference • schematisation (19) elegant failure (20) Practical Criticism • internal/external expansion and limitation (21) treeness (22) Jakobson • Empson (23) I. A. Richards • structuralism • post-structuralism • Roland Barthes • Julia Kristeva • Marcelin Pleynet • Michel Couturier (24) Tel Quel • Culler, Structuralist Poetics (25) Dada • Tristran Tzara (25) Marjorie Perloff (26) Wittgenstein • ordinary language philosophy (27) Barthes • Wittgenstein, language-game • poetic function • Russian Formalism • Velimir Khlebnikov • Vladimir Mayakovsky (28) Viktor Shklovsky • Zaum poetry • strangeness (29) poetic practice • Ted Hughes • Philip Larkin • experimental poetics • The Movement (30) Ashbery (32) Empson • subjective but who cares? • women at Cambridge in the 1970s • Wendy Mulford • Denise Riley (33) Forrest-Thomson, Cordelia, or 'A Poem Should Not Mean, But Be' (34) Archibald MacLeish, 'Ars Poetica' (36) hermeneutics (39) heroic failures (41) politics • identity politics • feminism (42) Riley