Texts on Texts and Textuality : A Phenomenology of Literary Art. Edited by Ellen J. Burns.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaelin, E. F.

Contributor:

Burns, Ellen J.

Series:

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Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Phenomenology and literature.

Literature--Philosophy.

Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston : BRILL, 1999.

Summary:

Texts on Texts and Textuality argues the case for an American phenomenology as applied to works of literary artworks. The argument is made by a surrounding frame (the Preface and the Afterword) that encloses ten chapters. The chapters are divided into two parts: the phenomenological theory and practical criticism. In making his case, Kaelin traces the development in the American academic tradition from the American New Criticism through structuralism to the French nouvelle critique. He calls his theory phenomenological structuralism, and shows its derivation from American pragmatism (contextualism) to an unabashed phenomenology through the criticisms of Roman Ingarden, Martin Heidegger, and Paul Ricoeur. The structuralism derives from the work of Ferdinand de Saussure, as incorporated into the philosophical linguistics of Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Part II contains five chapters, each concerned with either direct application of the theory in acts of criticism, or in the metacriticism of accepted critical theories, such as the Aristotelians of early dramatic critics (Chapter 6), or of applied procedures in recent academic critical circles (Chapter 10). The argument is concluded in the author's Afterword, where pedagogical issues are introduced to suggest the future applicability of the theory. A glossary of technical and new terms is added, and a double index - of names and a subject matter - is included to map out the author's own interpretation of his bibliographic references.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Table of Contents

Editorial Foreword

Editor's Introduction

Author's Preface

Acknowledgments

PART I: PHENOMENOLOGICAL CRITICAL THEORY

ONE Living with Metaphor

TWO Of Time in Literary Texts

THREE Language as a Medium for Art

FOUR The Debate over Stratification within Aesthetic Objects

FIVE Contextual Significance and the Truth of Literature

PART II: PHENOMENOLOGICAL METACRITICISM AND CRITICAL PRACTICE

SIX The Role of Philosophy in the Development of Tragic Drama

SEVEN Toward a Theory of Contemporary Tragedy

EIGHT What Makes Philosophical Literature Philosophical?

NINE Nature and Human Nature in Literary Contexts

TEN The Fourteenth Way of Looking at a Blackbird

Afterword: The Uses and Abuses of Theory

References

Glossary of Technical and Unusual Terms

About the Author

About the Editor

Index of Proper Names

Subject Index

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ISBN:

9789004494022

9004494022

OCLC:

1337947098