Philosophical Approaches to Literature: New Essays on Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century TextsWilliam E. Cain Bucknell University Press, 1984 - 257 من الصفحات This volume presents eleven new essays that reveal how significant nineteenth-and twentieth-century writers have drawn from, and in some cases, opposed major trends in philosophy. Essays in this collection deal with Tennyson, Coleridge, Woolf, Faulkner, De Quincey, Beckett, romance as a genre, the state of contemporary literary theory as shaped by the writings of Wittgenstein, Ricoeur and Derrida, and other topics. |
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Antinomy and Irony in De Quinceys Sir William Hamilton | 73 |
Philosophys Copernican Revolution and American Literary Dialectics | 91 |
Dickens and Thackeray Woolf and Beckett | 117 |
Virginia Woolf and the Prose of the World | 140 |
As I Lay Dying | 165 |
Paul Ricoeur and the Ironic Style of Postmodern Criticism | 183 |
Wittgenstein and the Question of Criteria in Literary Criticism | 202 |
Marx after Derrida | 227 |
Select Bibliography | 247 |
Contributors | 253 |
Index | 255 |
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
Addie Addie's analogy association Beckett become characters Chicago claim closure Coleridge Coleridge's complete concept consciousness criteria cultural Dalloway death deconstruction Derrida dialectical discourse E. M. Forster Emerson essay existence experience F. R. Leavis fact Faulkner fiction figure final Hegel human idea ideal identity Idle Tears imagination interpretation irony Jacques Derrida Kant language Lay Dying Leavis linguistic Literary Criticism literary texts literature logic London Malone Malone Dies Marx Marx's meaning metaphor metaphysics metaphysics of presence mind narrative narrator Nietzsche novel object paradox past Paul Ricoeur Phenomenology Phenomenology of Spirit philosophy poem poet poetic poetry possible practice present problem question Quincey Quincey's reader reading relation representation rhetoric Ricoeur romance Samuel Taylor Coleridge seems self-conscious sense story structure suggests Tennyson theory things tion Tithonus trans Trobe truth Ulysses understanding University Press Virginia Woolf voice Wittgenstein words writing York
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الصفحة 51 - TEARS, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy Autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail, That brings our friends up from the underworld, Sad as the last which reddens over one That sinks with all we love below the verge ; So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.
الصفحة 61 - As tho' to breathe were life. Life piled on life Were all too little, and of one to me Little remains: but every hour is saved From that eternal silence, something more, A bringer of new things; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself, And this...
الصفحة 61 - Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades Vext the dim sea : I am become a name ; For always roaming with a hungry heart Much have I seen and known ; cities of men And manners, climates, councils, governments...
الصفحة 65 - THE woods decay, the woods decay and fall, The vapours weep their burthen to the ground, Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath, And after many a summer dies the swan.
الصفحة 60 - ULYSSES. IT little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.
الصفحة 99 - The other, which is no longer turned toward the origin, affirms freeplay and tries to pass beyond man and humanism, the name man being the name of that being who, throughout the history of metaphysics or of ontotheology - in other words, through the history of all of his history - has dreamed of full presence, the reassuring foundation, the origin and the end of the game. The second interpretation of interpretation, to which Nietzsche showed us the way, does not seek in ethnography, as Levi-Strauss...
الصفحة 110 - A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
الصفحة 121 - At the usual evening hour the chapel bell began to toll, and Thomas Newcome's hands outside the bed feebly beat time. And just as the last bell struck, a peculiar sweet smile shone over his face, and he lifted up his head a little, and quickly said " Adsnm !
الصفحة 67 - Shines in those tremulous eyes that fill with tears To hear me ? Let me go: take back thy gift: Why should a man desire in any way To vary from the kindly race of men, Or pass beyond the goal of ordinance Where all should pause, as is most meet for all?
الصفحة 185 - The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other, according to their relative worth and dignity.