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| Titre : | Aristotle's concept of energeia in Autumn Journal by Louis MacNeice, poet, classics scholar and intellectual (2010) |
| Auteurs : | Mélanie WHITE, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Etudes irlandaises (vol 34 n 2 2010) |
| Article en page(s) : | p. 55-69 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
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| Résumé : | Drawing extensively on Aristotle's Metaphysics and Poetics, this article argues that Louis MacNeice's training in classical literature and philosophy may have helped him to devise an original theory of time, one in which the present is not posited as mediating between the past and the future, but has a value of its own, deriving from Aristotle's concept of energeia as motion. Refuting some of the criticism that has been levelled at Autumn Journal and Autumn Sequel, his two long poems, this article also distinguishes between literature as "actuality" and literature as mere "reportage", and shows that for MacNeice, the need for action in times of crisis, did not preclude the necessity to reconsider the role of the poet as man-of-action. The intellectual positioning that his reconsideration entails brings to light MacNeice's simultaneous rejection of nationalism and communism as the only alternative left to man on the eve of World War II |
| Pays de publication : | France |
| Lieu de publication : | Rennes |
| Mention de responsabilité : | Mélanie White |
| Fonds : | Médiathèque |
