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Karnicky, Jeffrey Joseph.

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Communication breakdown: Reading postmodern literature.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Communication breakdown: Reading postmodern literature./
Author:	Karnicky, Jeffrey Joseph.
Description:	233 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Richard Doyle.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International62-07A.
Subject:	Language, Modern. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3020473
ISBN:	9780493315072

Communication breakdown: Reading postmodern literature.
Karnicky, Jeffrey Joseph.

Communication breakdown: Reading postmodern literature. - 233 p.

Adviser: Richard Doyle.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Pennsylvania State University, 2001.

This dissertation emerges from a series of questions I continually ask myself and my students: What is reading? Why and how do we read? Engaging these seemingly simple questions has led me to investigate the ethical significance of reading in theory, criticism and pedagogy. This dissertation formulates an ethics of reading, that is, a consideration of the literary not as a static site for textual interpretation, but as an always contextual, always socially-inflected mode of transformation for both reader and text. Rather than reading contemporary literature as an expression or symptom of contemporary reality, this project, using the theoretical writings of Gilles Deleuze and Maurice Blanchot, situates reading not as a decoding of meaning but as a locus of the social forces that inform responses to the literary. Thus configured, reading, as a careful consideration of how we respond to the otherness of texts, becomes a site of ethical force with relevance to both literary (especially postmodern) and cultural studies.

ISBN: 9780493315072Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018098
Language, Modern.

Communication breakdown: Reading postmodern literature.
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520 $a This dissertation emerges from a series of questions I continually ask myself and my students: What is reading? Why and how do we read? Engaging these seemingly simple questions has led me to investigate the ethical significance of reading in theory, criticism and pedagogy. This dissertation formulates an ethics of reading, that is, a consideration of the literary not as a static site for textual interpretation, but as an always contextual, always socially-inflected mode of transformation for both reader and text. Rather than reading contemporary literature as an expression or symptom of contemporary reality, this project, using the theoretical writings of Gilles Deleuze and Maurice Blanchot, situates reading not as a decoding of meaning but as a locus of the social forces that inform responses to the literary. Thus configured, reading, as a careful consideration of how we respond to the otherness of texts, becomes a site of ethical force with relevance to both literary (especially postmodern) and cultural studies.
520 $a Chapter One, "Saying Yes to Bartleby: Between Reading and Writing," formulates reading as an ethical endeavor that always negotiates how to engage texts, and not as a means for defining or categorizing literature. Taking its impetus from Herman Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener," this chapter locates a common resistance to interpretation and understanding through the characters that populate Susan Daitch's Storytown and David Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress, and considers how to respond to literary works that resist a hermeneutic understanding of the world, and how to employ these works in the classroom.
520 $a Chapters Two and Three, "Kinds of Stasis in David Foster Wallace," and "The Gift of Nothing in Richard Powers," read these writers as deploying stasis and silence as the primary components of their characters' subjectivities, which in turn leads to a consideration of how reading becomes a blockage of selfhood.
520 $a Chapter Four, "Silence Junkies: Maurice Blanchot and Irvine Welsh," engages the configuration of literary subjectivity produced by both writers as spaces of negotiation of class and race politics, national identity, globalism, and psychological conceptions of selfhood.
520 $a Chapter Five, "Hauntings: Pynchon, Burroughs, DeLillo," interrogates postmodern literary criticism's focus on the influence of Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo and William S. Burroughs on subsequent writers. This chapter comes last in order to differentiate this project from postmodern literary criticism that employs the work of Pynchon, DeLillo, or Burroughs as defining the parameters of contemporary literature. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
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