Naslov
T.S. Eliot in the Context of Contemporary Literary Theory

Autori
Brlek, Tomislav

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Ocjenski radovi, doktorska disertacija

Fakultet
Filozofski fakultet

Mjesto
Zagreb

Datum
08.03

Godina
2007

Stranica
236

Mentor
Duda, Dean

Ključne riječi
T.S. Eliot; Literary Theory; Representation; Modernism; Criticism; Interpretation

Sažetak
The dissertation places the critical and poetic writings of T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) in the context of contemporary literary theory, paying special attention to the reasons for its neglect. Eliot’ s theoretical tenets are contextualised through four principal routes of inquiry: 1) engaging the prevalent ideological readings of Eliot’ s poetry and critical writings, premised on the “ institutional Americanism” (T. Clarke) of the academy ; 2) presenting Eliot as a theorist who rejected ideological, biographical, and historiographical homogenisations of such key terms as culture, tradition, and literature in the name of close readings of texts informing these concepts, which of necessity precludes the reader’ s mastery of them ; 3) re-conceptualising the hierarchy of text and context by means of revaluating of modernist self-reflexive undermining of their relation, and linking the « rejected» Eliot in this respect with certain currently unfashionable stands in contemporary theory (Derrida, Lotman, Adorno, de Man, Lyotard) ; 4) insisting on the impossibility of « archiving» modernism from a post-modern perspective as an impulse to question historicist division of the past from the vantage point of the present and arguing for a different literary historiography, which will not be predicated upon a transcendental position. In keeping with the main thrust of the argument, these critical investigations are closely inter-related, so that each feeds back into the others, contributing to the cogency of the theoretical « network» cast over the problem under study.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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