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Crete:Dorothy Porter, exuberance, and the limits of art
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | McCredden, Lyn |
| Copyright Year | 2014 |
| Description | This essay argues that the poetry of Australian poet Dorothy Porter, exemplified in her collection, Crete, operates along contrapuntal lines. The poet's daemonic energy celebrates the ancient island culture, expressed variously in outbursts of democratic irreverence or pagan sensuousness or hierophantic exuberance or queer subversiveness. However, this celebration is met by what reaches out beyond the celebration of aesthetic energy, towards a sifting, self-questioning ethics. This ethics questions the limits of the aesthetic and gives Porter's Crete its richest, most disturbing depths. This double action of Porter's poetry puts aesthetics—its powers and its limits—into question. |
| Related Links | http://doi.org/10.1080/14443058.2014.921232 |
| Ending Page | 280 |
| Page Count | 10 |
| Starting Page | 271 |
| ISSN | 14443058 |
| e-ISSN | 18356419 |
| DOI | 10.1080/14443058.2014.921232 |
| Journal | Journal of Australian Studies |
| Issue Number | 3 |
| Volume Number | 38 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2014-07-03 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Journal: Journal of Australian Studies Cultural Studies Poetry Dorothy Porter Aesthetics Ethics |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Sociology and Political Science History Political Science and International Relations Cultural Studies Literature and Literary Theory |
