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Inarticulate prayers: Irony and religion in late twentieth-century poetry

机译:口齿不清的祷告:20世纪后期诗歌中的讽刺与宗教

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Inarticulate Prayers: Irony and Religion in Late Twentieth-Century Poetry examines irony and its implications for religious belief within texts ranging from the New York School Poets to the Language Poets and, in Caribbean literature, within the poems of Derek Walcott and Kamau Brathwaite. Taking Jacques Derrida's distinction between deconstruction and negative theology as a point of departure, I argue that contemporary poets employ ironic language to articulate an ambivalent, and skeptical, system of belief. In "How to Avoid Speaking: Denials," Derrida contrasts his theory of differance--as a fundamentally negative and critical mode of inquiry--with negative theology, which ultimately affirms God's being after a process of negation. My study asserts that contemporary poets, in accord with principles of negative theology, engage in inarticulate, self-canceling and negative utterances that nevertheless affirm the possibility of belief and enlightenment. By postulating the affinity between contemporary poets and the apophatic tradition, I explain how the work of these poets, despite often being dismissed as arid exercises in poststructuralist thought, productively draws on linguistic theories and also advances beyond the "negativity" of such theories. Moreover, as it intervenes in recent debates over the absence of a spiritual dimension to contemporary poetry, my dissertation opens new perspectives through which to theorize postmodern literature. Demonstrating that experiments in language and form are driven by an ironic stance towards belief, authorship and literary tradition, Inarticulate Prayers ultimately redefines contemporary lyric and narrative poetry and asserts negation, inarticulateness, and contradiction as determining characteristics of postmodern writing.
机译:口齿不清的祈祷:20世纪后期诗歌中的讽刺与宗教,从纽约派诗人到语言诗人,以及加勒比文学中的德里克·沃尔科特(Derek Walcott)和卡莫·布拉斯韦特(Kamau Brathwaite)的诗歌中,研究讽刺及其对宗教信仰的影响。以雅克·德里达(Jacques Derrida)在解构主义与否定神学之间的区别为出发点,我认为当代诗人运用讽刺性语言来表达一种矛盾和怀疑的信仰体系。德里达在《如何避免说话:否认》中,将他的差异理论(从根本上说是一种消极的和批判性的探究模式)与消极的神学进行了对比,消极的神学最终肯定了上帝在否定过程之后的存在。我的研究断言,当代诗人根据否定神学的原则,进行了口齿不清,自我消除和否定性话语,但仍肯定了信仰和启蒙的可能性。通过假设当代诗人与世界末日传统之间的亲和力,我解释了这些诗人的作品,尽管经常被后结构主义思想中的枯燥练习所忽略,却如何有效地利用语言学理论,并且超越了这些理论的“否定性”。而且,由于它介入了关于当代诗歌缺乏精神层面的近期辩论,因此我的论文开辟了新的观点,通过这些观点可以对后现代文学进行理论化。证明语言和形式的实验是由对信仰,作者和文学传统的讽刺立场推动的,《无言祈祷》最终重新定义了当代抒情和叙事诗,并断言否定,无言和矛盾是决定后现代写作的特征。

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