텍스트의 세속성과 정치성 - Said, Jameson, Eagleton을 중심으로

• 영문명: A Study of Textual Secularity and Politics
• 발행기관: 한국비평이론학회
• 저자명: 오길영(Gilyoung Oh)
• 간행물 정보: 『비평과 이론』제12권 1호, 55~80쪽, 전체 26쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2007.06.30

영문 초록

  This essay proposes to give a detailed analysis of the newly envisioned meaning of text and textuality with a comparative investigation into such singular theorists as Jameson, Eagleton and Said who have been respectively explicating this issue of textuality in a hot battle ground of modern critical discourse. Despite of some significant and analysis-deserved theoretical differences among them, these theorists share a common ground on their dissatisfaction with and critique of the cliched notion of modern text and textuality based on the unfounded binary opposition of textual content and form, text and reality, text and secularity, and so on. As Jameson has convincingly argued, we never confront a text immediately and "purely", since texts come before us as the always-already read. In consequence, we should be carefully wary of the sedimented layers of previous interpretations. This makes the starting point for Jameson"s "dialectical criticism" which problematizes both the locus of textual subject and object. Eagleton takes a similar stance to Jameson in his problematization of the unquestioned implication of textuality and literariness. Nevertheless, Eagleton goes further in his radical gesture of de constructing the demarcating line of text and non-text. He attempts to shake the fundamental but unquestioned ground of our reading and interpretation of a given text with some noticeable (de)merits. Said"s notion of secular criticism may be summed up a singular and convincing inclusion of both Jameson"s and Eagleton"s elaboration on the meaning of textuality. Said does not hesitate to demonstrate his deep discomfort with the "text-in-itself detached from its context which is, both in reality and in principle, inseparably intertwined with the context which does claim its space in and out of the text. The interpretative practice and the identity of text is, following Said, supposed to pay a careful attention to the horizon of secularity of a given text.

목차

Ⅰ. 텍스트, 텍스트성, 컨텍스트
Ⅱ. 텍스트의 정치성(1): 제임슨의 텍스트론
Ⅲ. 텍스트의 정치성(2): 이글턴의 텍스트론
Ⅳ. 텍스트의 세속성: 싸이드의 텍스트론
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Abstract

키워드

텍스트 텍스트성 의미 해석 세속성 text textuality meaning interpretation secularity