The Postmodern Play of Language

ISBN-13: 9783639702545 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 188 str.

Lee Kyeong-Hwa

Opis

In the postmodern era, language is often dissociated from its user, and playfully generates meaning. This book clearly shows how Jacques Derrida deconstructs Western thought which he calls logocentrism, and how his deconstruction brings about the self-engendering and self-expressive function of language. With regard to Derridas deconstruction, this book delves into William Faulkners novels. Mosquitoes (1927), The Sound and the Fury (1929) and Absalom, Absalom! (1936), among others, reveal Faulkners view of language that language does not simply represent the object but engages in creative self-expression. Mosquitoes exposes Faulkners basic thoughts about art and language through the conversations of the people who are gathered for Mrs. Mauriers yacht party. The Sound and the Fury and Absalom, Absalom! lay bare the space of text where meanings are, not governed by the unified system, but produced through the free play of language.

O autorze

Kyeong-Hwa Lee is Professor of English of Dankook University in Korea. She received a Ph. D. degree at SUNY Buffalo in 2004. She has been publishing papers on theory and American literature. She is now actively working as a member of an academic community in Korea and overseas as well.