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Material Difference

Modernism and the Allegories of Discourse

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

Av William D. Melaney

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Material Difference: Modernism and the Allegories of Discourse argues that deconstruction can be employed in conjunction with the historically-oriented approach to cultural experience that is favored by Critical Theory. The two discourses that inform this comparative study situate Modernism between evolving traditions that begin with Hegel and Nietzsche, leading on to Adorno’s commitment to philosophical aesthetics and Derrida’s concern for writing (écriture). Interrelated discussions of eight major authors, working in four different languages, are presented to show how allegorical Modernism foreshadows the possibility of cultural history. Joyce, Kafka, Malraux, Rilke, and Stevens are among the authors discussed in this book. The notion of material difference allows literature to be redefined in semiotic terms and demonstrates how the allegorical imagination mediates between art and time.

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Utgivningsdatum2012-01-01
Mått155 x 235 x undefined mm
Vikt456 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieTextxet: Studies in Comparative Literature
Antal sidor255
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789042034488

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William D. Melaney is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the American University in Cairo. He has published extensively in the fields of both modern literature and Continental philosophy. His first book, After Ontology: Literary Theory and Modernist Poetics (Albany: SUNY Press, 2001), brought together Gadamer’s hermeneutics and Derrida’s deconstruction in order to reread some of the key texts in Anglo-American Modernism. This early study compared both positions in order to re-examine the Modernist legacy in the work of major representatives.

AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Allegory and Modernist LiteratureAllegories of DiscourseBenjamin and Allegory: Resituating Modernist PracticesAllegory in Adorno/Derrida: Reading Material DifferenceAllegorical ProseJoyce’s Genealogies: Myth and Allegorical CriticismKafka’s Promise: Memory and the Art of WritingMalraux’s Hope: Voices, Traces, MemorialsAndrić’s Resistance: Testimonies of Historical ConflictAllegorical PoetryRilke’s Material Semiotics: On Signs and PerformativityEliot’s Autobiographical Trace: Time and Critical RevisionWilliams and Poetic Renewal: Borderlands, Exile, ReturnStevens and the Claims of Lyric: Allegory and Poetic LifeThe Allegorical ImaginationA Semiotics of Reading: Literature, Language and HistoryAllegories of the Spirit: Modernism and Material DifferenceBibliographyIndex