{"product_id":"poetry-and-opinion-by-vidyan-ravinthiran-9781009549059","title":"Poetry and Opinion","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIdentifying ourselves, others, and writers with their opinions—and taking the form of the opinion as the epitome of political engagement—we assert a picture of the self that ought to be scrutinised. Mass print generated, along with the railways, telegraph, information-relays national and global, as well as the development of specialised forms of technological, scientific, economic, and medical knowledge, a sea of discourse belying any vision of a cogent public sphere: disinformation is not a purely 21st-century, internet phenomenon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoetry and Opinion\u003c\/em\u003e helps us understand this situation. Appearing in verse, claims about reality have been characterised, or have self-characterised, as virtual. As such, Romantic and post-Romantic poetry makes perceptible other ways in which, in other precincts, utterance becomes virtualised. Sometimes, by the psychological turbulences of the citizen-as-creature, appropriating world events to the need to self-assert; sometimes, as a result of affective matrices that challenge the idea that we are the authors of our own opinions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47934186815724,"sku":"9781009549059","price":242.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781009549059-poetry-and-opinion.jpg?v=1783902564","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/poetry-and-opinion-by-vidyan-ravinthiran-9781009549059","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}