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  title info:
    title: Lyric logic
    sub title: how modern American poetry reasons
  name:
    name part: Winant, Johanna
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2026
    copyright date: 2026
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 261 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Lyric Logic tells an original story about the relationship between poetry and philosophy. Many poems, Johanna Winant argues, represent thinking, but only some poems model philosophical reasoning. For those that do, including poetry by modern American poets Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Gertrude Stein, Marianne Moore and Elizabeth Bishop, poetic forms are also logical forms. This book shows that two different stories, modernism in literary studies and the problem of induction in philosophy, are sometimes the same story. Both are about destabilizing and enriching encounters with the new and unexpected. The problem of induction identifies the unreliability of this reasoning to predict future events based only on past ones and surfaces as an urgent topic in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American thought. Attention to induction in philosophy coincided with the emergence of literary modernism because both poetry and philosophy participated in a larger, fundamental question in modernity's intellectual history. How to understand and represent the new? Lyric Logic shows how modern American poetry responds to this problem by doing philosophical work through its formal experimentation. Winant recasts the poetics of central figures as examples of inductive reasoning. They argue that we see induction at its most robust in poems, and they defend induction, however unreliable, as the best way to make sense of the unpredictable modern world.
  note: Johanna Winant.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: American poetry
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Reason in literature
  classification: PS303 .W48 2026
  classification: 811.409384
  identifier: 9780231217460
  identifier: 0231217463
  identifier: 9780231217477
  identifier: 0231217471
  identifier: 9780231561747
  identifier: 2025029229
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 250729
    record change date: 20260603203406.9
    record identifier: in00005783501