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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.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements Introduction: Allegory and Modernist Literature Allegories of Discourse Benjamin and Allegory: Resituating Modernist Practices Allegory in Adorno/Derrida: Reading Material Difference Allegorical Prose Joyce’s Genealogies: Myth and Allegorical Criticism Kafka’s Promise: Memory and the Art of Writing Malraux’s Hope: Voices, Traces, Memorials Andrić’s Resistance: Testimonies of Historical Conflict Allegorical Poetry Rilke’s Material Semiotics: On Signs and Performativity Eliot’s Autobiographical Trace: Time and Critical Revision Williams and Poetic Renewal: Borderlands, Exile, Return Stevens and the Claims of Lyric: Allegory and Poetic Life The Allegorical Imagination A Semiotics of Reading: Literature, Language and History Allegories of the Spirit: Modernism and Material Difference Bibliography Index

About the Author :
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.


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  • ISBN-13: 9789042034488
  • Publisher: Brill
  • Publisher Imprint: Editions Rodopi B.V.
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 255
  • Series Title: 65 Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature
  • Weight: 426 gr
  • ISBN-10: 9042034483
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Modernism and the Allegories of Discourse
  • Width: 155 mm


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