Literary Voice: The Calling of Jonah

Donald Wesling · Tadeusz Slawek

srpen 1995 · State University of New York Press

Podrobnosti o e‑knize

Jacques Derrida has ably analyzed the writing that is in speaking, but this reply to his work analyzes the speaking that is in writing. This book defends and illustrates literary voice against modern philosophy's critique of the spoken, and in the light of Mikhail Bakhtin's dialogism and Henri Meschonnic's studies on subjectivity in rhythmic language. The authors find literary voice to be maximal in bardic speech, where the author speaks for the nation. This full voice stands between the two minimums of the body (grunts and sighs and birdsong), and the material text (loss of logic, narrative, and social tones in Nietzsche and in the American LANGUAGE poets).

O autorovi

Donald Wesling is Professor of English Literature at the University of California, San Diego, Tadeusz Sawek is Professor of English Literature and Critical Theory at the English Institute, University of Silesia in Poland.