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Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 16:06:27 -0400
From: Reg Lilly <rlilly-AT-scott.skidmore.edu>
Subject: Re: PLC: Phenomenological Lit-crit


Michael,

	I'll try to get a copy of Poulet's book -- I recognize the name, but haven't
read him.  Could you say a few words about what he is up to and especially the
'phenomenological' character of his work?  The Lentricchia quote is, as I would
expect, a rather polemical assessment, so it's a bit hard to 'decipher'.
Reg

Michael Greer wrote:
> 
> yeah I vote for George Poulet. Especially the _Studies in Human
> Time_published in translation 1956. Let me quote Lentricchia:
> In Poulet a strange and frightened Cartesianism at once seeks and claims
> an isolated, privileged, and transcendent space of human consciousness
> as the goal of critical reading and yet appears to grant, at the same
> time, the coercive power of objectivity over the interior subject
> and the shocking vulnerability of interiority to a voracious
> exteriority.

   

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