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After Ontology

Literary Theory and Modernist Poetics

By: William D. Melaney

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After Ontology

Literary Theory and Modernist Poetics

By: William D. Melaney

Offers a reconsideration of modernism in both philosophy and literature.

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SUNY Press

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0791449572

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9780791449578

Figural Space

Semiotics and the Aesthetic Imaginary

By: William D. Melaney

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Figural Space

Semiotics and the Aesthetic Imaginary

By: William D. Melaney

This book is concerned with the continuing viability of both Freud and Hegel to the reading of modern literature. The book begins with Julia Kristeva’s attempts to relate Hegelian thought to a psychoanalytically informed conception of semiotics that was first explored in her influential study, The Revolution of Poetic Language, and then modified in later books that develop semiotics in new directions. Kristeva’s agreements and disagreement with Hegel are important to the book’s argument, which ultimately defends Hegel against familiar, poststructuralist detractions. However, the book’s conceptual argument requires a historical exposition, with chapters devoted to literary figures ranging from Spenser to Ishiguro. One of the purposes of the book is to demonstrate that Hegel’s contribution to modern thought is at least partially exhibited in the history of literature, which also corroborates some of the deeper insights of psychoanalysis.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538147866

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9781538147863

Alterity and Criticism

Tracing Time in Modern Literature

By: William D. Melaney

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Alterity and Criticism

Tracing Time in Modern Literature

By: William D. Melaney

How does the theme of the other–-as person, experience or alternative conceptual scheme—allow us to reassess the role of the self in literary texts? This book employs phenomenology and semiotics to argue that modern literature is strongly concerned with the role of time in the construction of the self. Alterity and Criticism: Retracing Time in Modern Literature argues that the role of time in canonical literature underlies the experience of alterity and requires a new hermeneutic to clarify how the self emerges in literary texts. Romantic poetry from Goethe to Shelley and the modern prose tradition from Flaubert to Butor constitute different traditions but also indicate, on a textual basis, how alterity performs a crucial role in reading, thus encouraging us to interpret literary texts in terms of the related concerns of self, other and time. The author examines the phenomenology of Emmanuel Lévinas and Wolfgang Iser, as well as the cultural semiotics of Julia Kristeva, to argue that modern literature provides the occasion for a new understanding of the self in time and, in this way, addresses some of the pressing literary problems of our own period.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1786601516

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9781786601513

After Ontology

Literary Theory and Modernist Poetics

By: William D. Melaney

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Literary Theory and Modernist Poetics

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Offers a reconsideration of modernism in both philosophy and literature.

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0791449580

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