%0 Journal Article %T Basil Bunting¡¯s Aesthetic Function: Art vs. Intellect %A Farid Parvaneh %A Raheleh S. Aaraaby %J Canadian Social Science %D 2012 %I Canadian Academy of Oriental and Occidental Culture %R 10.3968/j.css.1923669720120802.1065 %X Basil Bunting is most commonly thought of as 1930s and 1940s poet grouped with some other poets such as Louis Zukofsky and Lorine Niedecker under the label ¡°Objectivist ¡±. The present researchers seek to achieve two goals in this paper. The fi rst goal is to argue that Bunting pushes the aesthetic function to the very brink of sense but holds it there, oscillating on the cusp of referential meaning, thus creating a contested, liminal space where sound and sense content for the constructive axis of meaning-construction. The second goal is to construct an oppositional relationship between art and intellect and conclude that if the best poetry aspires to a state of pure music, that aspiration moves it even further away from the intellect1. Reference will also be made to opponents who put sight and visuality over and above everything else in man¡¯s effort to acquire knowledge of this world in general. Key words: Bunting; Aesthetics; Form; Art; Intellect; Music R¨¦sum¨¦ Basil Bunting est le plus souvent consid¨¦r¨¦s comme des ann¨¦es 1930 et 1940 de regroup¨¦s les po¨¨tes avec quelques autres po¨¨tes tels que Louis Zukofsky et Lorine Niedecker sous le label objectiviste . Les chercheurs comtenporains cherchent ¨¤ atteindre deux objectifs dans le pr¨¦sent document. Le premier objectif est de faire valoir que le Bunting pousse la fonction esth¨¦tique au bord m¨ºme du sens, mais y maintient, oscillant sur le point de sens r¨¦f¨¦rentiel, cr¨¦ant ainsi un litigieuse, espace liminal o¨´ le son et le contenu de sens pour l¡¯axe constructif de sens-la construction. Le deuxi¨¨me objectif est de construire une relation d¡¯opposition entre l¡¯art et de l¡¯intellect et de conclure que si la meilleure po¨¦sie aspire ¨¤ un ¨¦tat de la musique pure, que l¡¯aspiration se d¨¦place encore plus loin de l¡¯intellect. R¨¦f¨¦rence sera ¨¦galement ¨¤ des adversaires qui ont mis la vue et la visualit¨¦ audel¨¤ de tout le reste de l¡¯effort de l¡¯homme d¡¯acqu¨¦rir des connaissances de ce monde en g¨¦n¨¦ral. Mots cl¨¦s: Forme Bunting; L¡¯esth¨¦tique; L¡¯art; L¡¯intelligence; De la musique %K Bunting %K Aesthetics %K Form %K Art %K Intellect %K Music %U http://cscanada.net/index.php/css/article/view/2484