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Blow the bugles over the metaphysicians: Louis MacNeice and an aesthetics of error

This essay explores the Lacanian concept of “constitutive error” as analogous to a MacNeician “poetics of error.” Contrary to critical consensus, I examine the extent to which the philosophy of MacNeice’s poetry might be considered radically cogent, as well as the extent to which it might spur a rer...

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Main Author: Ahren Warner
Format: Default Article
Published: 2018
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2134/25988
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Summary:This essay explores the Lacanian concept of “constitutive error” as analogous to a MacNeician “poetics of error.” Contrary to critical consensus, I examine the extent to which the philosophy of MacNeice’s poetry might be considered radically cogent, as well as the extent to which it might spur a rereading of Lacanian aesthetics.