Research Catalog

Title

Literary voice : the calling of Jonah / Donald Wesling and Tadeusz Sławek.

Author

Wesling, Donald.

Publication

Albany : State University of New York Press, [1995], ©1995.

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Additional Authors

Sławek, Tadeusz.

Description

xii, 238 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

SUNY series, the margins of literature

Uniform Title

SUNY series, the margins of literature.

Subjects

• Bible > Jonah > Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Criticism
• Style, Literary

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-231) and index.

Contents

• 1. Toward a Philosophy of Literary Voice. Person as Voice: Thinking about a Metaphor. Three Elements of a Comprehensive Philosophy of Literary Voice. A History/Theory of the Relation of Voice to Person. A Theory of Communicative Context. A Stylistics Based on Speech Orientation. The Speaking Subject: Our Most Comprehensive Premise as Derived from Emile Benveniste and Julia Kristeva. Dialogism, Speaking Subject, and the Critique of Existing Theory of Voice. Before Grammatology. After (and beyond) Grammatology -- 2. Fish and Bird: Minimal Articulation. The Idea of the Call. Regional Intentionality. The Chasm of the Inarticulate. Birdsong. Exclamations, Cries, and Other Transgressions. Aa!! -- 3. Early Modern Speaking Subjects. Grammatical and Legal Position of the Speaker: John Donne and Rene Descartes. Scenes of Parting: Donne and the Metaphysical Poets -- 4. Bardic Voice: Vestiges of the Oral and the National.
• The Voice of the Living God in the Delphic Oracle and the Book of Jonah. Vestiges of the Oral and the National: Eighteenth-Century Origins of the Bardic in England. The Exiled Voice in Adam Mickiewicz's Pan Tadeus. Phenomenology of Exile and Voice. Bardic Voice and the Exiled Epilogue. Silence of Voice. Sociology of the Polish Fatherland. Vachel Lindsay and American Bardic -- 5. De-tonation: Another Mode of the Minimal. De-Tonation in Nineteenth-Century Theory: Friedrich Nietzsche. The Passage: Jacques Derrida. The Periphery: Henri Meschonnic -- 6. Reading the De-toned Text. Voice Determinate and Indeterminate. Postmodern Indeterminate Voice. De-tonation. Strong De-tonation. Uncanny De-tonation. For the Subject.

ISBN

• 0791426270 (alk. paper)
• 0791426289 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

94045743

OCLC

ocm31754251

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries