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Justice for the dead :Schemes of transformation through phrase hermeneutics (William Shakespeare)

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Justice for the dead :
Reminder of title:	Schemes of transformation through phrase hermeneutics (William Shakespeare)
Author:	Egan, Kevin.
Description:	461 p.
Notes:	Director: Paul Fry.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-03, Section: A, page: 0920.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-03A.
Subject:	Literature, Comparative.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3125187
ISBN:	0496724770

Justice for the dead :Schemes of transformation through phrase hermeneutics (William Shakespeare)
Egan, Kevin.

Justice for the dead :Schemes of transformation through phrase hermeneutics (William Shakespeare) [electronic resource] - 461 p.

Director: Paul Fry.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 2004.

This dissertation explores some implications of a phraseologically-oriented approach to reading, and suggests that such an approach might revive an improved structuralist method (heuristically called "restructuralism"), which might begin by placing the rhetorical criticism of Kenneth Burke and the archetypal criticism of Northrop Frye in conversation with the theory of communicative action of Jurgen Habermas. Such a method might provide a useful reclarification of the connection between criticism, public discourse, and pressing social problems. The essay began as a consideration of the phrase-violence problematic, mainly in Shakespeare's Macbeth, but also in Hamlet (taking those two as an imaginative pair). That inquiry persists as a subtext, but the essay's thrust now is towards generating a plausible methodology for reading Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem, a method which I feel would have the broadest implications for criticism generally. By studying Arendt, Burke, and Saul Friedlander for clues to the pathologies of Nazi thinking, I have identified seven areas of cognitive and linguistic obsession that warrant study under the rubric of the formulaic phrase, since such phrases continuously connect the oldest layers of orality to the latest system languages: psychic elation, scapegoating, binary thinking, received worldviews, riddles, authoritative speech, and exogamous sexuality---all areas that can be studied across the orality/literacy divide. Guided by linguists and scholars of orality, especially Neal Norrick and David E. Bynum, as well as by Habermas' theory and Charles S. Peirce's semiotics and pragmatic philosophy, the bulk of the dissertation studies these areas as they are expressed in proverbs and oral fable and literature, especially Shakespeare. (A longer version also studies riddles and philosophical examples, mainly in Wittgenstein and Austin.) The essay concludes with a preliminary call for teachers and scholars to clarify our notions of social emergency and possible appropriate responses to it, in the hope that such a clarification would help in the perpetual project of reconnecting, as Habermas has phrased it, our knowledge to our human interests.

ISBN: 0496724770Subjects--Topical Terms:

178247
Literature, Comparative.

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