After Ontology: Literary Theory and Modernist Poetics
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Department
English & Comparative Literature Department
Description
This book identifies the uniquely postmodern elements in hermeneutics and deconstruction in order to reread many of the central texts in modernist literature. It is a comparative study that illuminates points of contact between the philosophical positions of Gadamer and Derrida, discussing Heidegger's influence on both Gadamer's ontological approaches to the work of art and Derrida's transformation approach to literary and philosophical texts. The poetry of Eliot, Pound and Yeats is examined within this framework, while the crucial example of Joyce is taken up in terms of the production and reception of 'Ulysses' as a seminal influence. The study concludes by suggesting that Derrida provides an ethical version of hermeneutics that departs from Gadamerian models but can be reconciled with both postmodern insights and historical research.
ISBN
978-0791449585
Publication Date
4-19-2001
Publisher
Albany : State University of New York Press (SUNY)
Keywords
W. B Yeats, T. S Eliot, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, Modernism, Literature, English literature, American poetry, Ontology in literature, Poetics
Disciplines
Philosophy
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APA Citation
Melaney, W. D.
(2001).After Ontology: Literary Theory and Modernist Poetics. Albany : State University of New York Press (SUNY).
https://fount.aucegypt.edu/faculty_books/159
MLA Citation
Melaney, William Donald
After Ontology: Literary Theory and Modernist Poetics. Albany : State University of New York Press (SUNY), 2001.
https://fount.aucegypt.edu/faculty_books/159
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