Language Mysticism

The Negative Way of Language in Eliot, Beckett, and Celan

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Shira Wolosky

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Hardback

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This book explores the place granted to language within metaphysical and theological hierarchies traditional to Western culture, where it reflects a deeply embedded ambivalence in the Western tradition toward material and temporal conditions in general. The author uses the writings of T. S. Eliot, Samuel Beckett, and Paul Celan to show how immediate this history of ambivalence remains. The language-centered interest of each writer focuses on theologies that are mystical and negative. A negative approach to language is almost always central to the mystical desire for a state beyond multiplicity, temporality, and embodiment. The author argues that the stances toward language of these three writers register their struggle to locate values that endow life with meaning, and the possibility of translating these values into historical reality.

Release date Australia

December 1st, 1995

Author

Shira Wolosky

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Pages

340

Dimensions

147x224x25

ISBN-13

9780804723879

Product ID

4724046

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