Limits of Orality and Textuality in Ciaran Carson's Poetry

ISBN-13: 9783631647455 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 240 str.

Grzegorz Czemiel

Opis

Following the evolution of Ciaran Carson s work, this book aims to trace the tension between orality and textuality, which can be discerned in the poetry of the Northern-Irish writer. Assuming these forces to be the two major sources of all literature, the author delineates, using deconstruction, how they inform and structure Carson s poetic uvre. Further thematic analyses focus on three major themes: memory, city and history, adopting various critical approaches, among them New Historicism and psychoanalysis. Finally, taking cue from Carson s later work, an epistemological and metaphysical dimension of his poetry is revealed. This serves as the final vantage point from which the author offers a potential glimpse beyond the said dialectic, unveiling Carson s broadly ethical project."

Recenzje

«I consider this study to be an erudite, sensitive and insightful reading of Ciaran Carson's poetry.» (Malgorzata Grzegorzewska, University of Warsaw)
«With his pioneering, up-to-date study, founded in a variety of theoretical sources, Grzegorz Czemiel establishes himself as an acute literary scholar, displaying creative temperament and intellectual inquisitiveness, well-versed in the most important currents of today's humanities, and offering us often ingenious and thoughtful interpretations of modern literary texts.» (Jerzy Jarniewicz, University of Lódz)

Spis treści

Contents: Poetry - Northern Ireland - Oral tradition - Writing - Deconstruction - Phenomenology - The dialectics of orality and textuality - The three mazes: city, memory and history - The limits of knowledge and the space of the poem.

O autorze

Grzegorz Czemiel received his PhD at the University of Warsaw and teaches at Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin (Poland). Specializing in contemporary Northern-Irish poetry, he also explores such topics as cartography, translation and urban studies, psychoanalysis and speculative realism in philosophy.