Reparative reading, post-structuralist Hermeneutics and T. S. Eliot's four quartets
- This essay approaches T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets (1935-1942) from the perspectives of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's critical practice of reparative reading and of Paul Ricoeur's poststructuralist hermeneutics. It demonstrates that Sedgwick's and Ricoeur's approaches can be productively combined to investigate hermeneutic processes in which the textual energy of a dissemination of meaning is redirected by a reparative or integrative impulse. In Four Quartets, this impetus induces the creation of semantic innovation through a violation of semantic pertinence, that is, through novel, tensional and provisional connections between formerly separate textual elements and semantic units.
Author details: | Katrin RöderGND |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1515/anglia-2014-0004 |
ISSN: | 0340-5222 |
ISSN: | 1865-8938 |
Title of parent work (English): | Anglia : journal of English philology |
Publisher: | De Gruyter |
Place of publishing: | Berlin |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Year of first publication: | 2014 |
Publication year: | 2014 |
Release date: | 2017/03/27 |
Volume: | 132 |
Issue: | 1 |
Number of pages: | 20 |
First page: | 58 |
Last Page: | 77 |
Organizational units: | Philosophische Fakultät / Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik |
Peer review: | Referiert |
External remark: | Zweitveröffentlichung in der Schriftenreihe Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe ; 115 |