Criticism in Society: Interviews with Jacques Derrida, Northrop Frye, Harold Bloom, Geoffrey Hartman, Frank Kermode, Edward Said, Barbara Johnson, Frank Lentricchia, and J. Hillis Miller (review)

1990 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 184-185
Author(s):  
Warwick Slinn
Keyword(s):  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Edward Said ◽  
Harold Bloom ◽  
Frank Kermode ◽  
Northrop Frye ◽  
Frank Lentricchia

Northrop Frye and the Problem of Spiritual Authority

PMLA ◽  
1972 ◽  
Vol 87 (5) ◽  
pp. 964-975 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles F. Altieri
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Vietnam War ◽  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Contemporary Problem ◽  
Underlying Structure ◽  
Recent Criticism ◽  
Evolutionary Patterns ◽  
Spiritual Authority ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Northrop Frye

Northrop Frye's recent criticism confronts the contemporary problem raised most powerfully by the Vietnam War—can we find a telos or definition of man on which we can ground our moral reactions and our visions of human development. Frye establishes this telos by an analysis of origins. Contained in a civilization's statements of “concern,” in its imaginative treatments of its own condition, one can find an underlying structure of desire which defines the ends of man. This structure and the recurrent images it produces then can serve as the middle terms people use to justify and value their actions. Frye shares his treatment of mediation with contemporary Hegelians like Sartre, Lukács, and Ricoeur, but grounds his absolute in tradition rather than in ideal absolutes or posited evolutionary patterns. Frye's idea of mediation also provides an ethical model for literary criticism: the critic tries to combine literature as product and as cultural possession by interpreting his materials as projections of imaginative desire. Furthermore, we can use Frye to criticize the relativist denial of origins in structuralist critics like Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida.

The Bible and American Literature

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan A. Cook
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Herman Melville ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Colonial America ◽  
Flannery O'connor ◽  
Harold Bloom ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Critical Commentary ◽  
Frank Kermode ◽  
King James Bible

It is a critical commonplace that the King James Bible served as the moral and cultural foundation for the Reformed Protestant community—a People of the Book—that developed in Puritan and colonial America and then continued in this role in the newly established United States well into the 20th century and even up to the present in attenuated form. Yet the contemporary student of American literature and the Bible is initially confronted with a paradox; for although commentators have long recognized the central role of the King James Bible in the development of the American literary tradition (as in the culture at large), the subject has long occupied a marginal position in the academy. As an interdisciplinary endeavor, the study of American literature and the Bible ideally requires competence in two academic realms, as manifested in the work of such past masters as Northrop Frye, Frank Kermode, Robert Alter, and Harold Bloom. Having developed in tandem with the growth of literary approaches to the Bible, the study of the influence of the Bible on American literature is now an increasingly recognized area of scholarly interest. Initially a field dominated by Christian scholars, it currently includes all those who recognize the Bible as a culturally authoritative source text for Western culture and tradition. The field has markedly expanded in recent years, with the appearance of key reference books, general surveys, and author studies. Major American writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, and Flannery O’Connor now have a substantial body of critical commentary on their work in relation to the Bible, while many others have received varying degrees of attention from this vibrant academic discipline.

scholarly journals Ciência da religião como discurso colonialista: o caso de Rudolf Otto

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 329
Author(s):  
Timothy M. Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Edward Said ◽  
Rudolf Otto

A abordagem dominante na ciência da religião conhecida como fenomenologia da religião possui um pressuposto central de que subjacente à multiplicidade de religiões historicamente e geograficamente dispersas há um substrato metafísico e trans-histórico chamado de “o homem”, Geist ou “consciência”. Esse substrato transcultural é um agente expressivo de natureza uniforme e essencial. Ao interpretar os dados da religião como “expressões” desse substrato, poderíamos entender de forma empática seu significado. Assim, Geist, ou “o homem”, é uma filosofia da história e uma teoria hermenêutica. Também forma um conjunto sistemático de representações que reproduz a estrutura das relações assimétricas entre os europeus e os colonizados pelos europeus. A metanarrativa de Geist é uma narrativa da supremacia – palavras deles, não minhas – da Europa branca cristã sobre a África negra “primitiva” e a Ásia “despótica”. O espírito se move do sul para o norte; afastando-se do oriente para o ocidente. Este artigo localiza o trabalho de Rudolf Otto dentro da estrutura e história do discurso fenomenológico, argumentando que a ciência da religião como ali descrita se adapta perfeitamente às estruturas do discurso colonial como já discutidas e analisadas por teóricos como Jacques Derrida e Edward Said.

Die Dekonstruktion

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter V. Zima
Keyword(s):  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Paul De Man ◽  
Harold Bloom ◽  
De Man

Zima stellt die Theorien von Jacques Derrida, Paul de Man, J. Hillis Miller, Geoffrey Hartman und Harold Bloom in ihrem philosophischen und ästhetischen Kontext dar. Seine Kommentare zu konkreten Textanalysen schlagen eine Brücke von der Theorie zur Praxis der Dekonstruktion. In der Neuauflage wird u. a. die Subjektproblematik bei Derrida und Deleuze ausführlicher kommentiert und der Dialog auf feministische Theorien ausgedehnt, von denen sich einige an der Dekonstruktion orientieren, um den Subjektbegriff in Frage zu stellen, während andere an diesem Begriff festhalten.

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