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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