The Materialist Remainder

Author:
Larsen, Soren Bo Aggerbeck, English - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Virginia
Advisor:
Wicke, Jennifer, University of Virginia
Abstract:

This thesis investigates "the materialist remainder" in Elizabeth Bishop and Franz Kafka. It is argued that it is the very literariness of their work which opens up a exemplary site for a dialogue with materialist dialectics. Far from demonstrating the irreducible primacy of reality, the materialist core of their work must be understood as an inherent excess in dialectics itself. Such a materialist dialectics is argued by help of the Lacanian philosopher Slavoj Žižek's re-reading of German Idealism and "the passage from Kant to Hegel".

Degree:
MA (Master of Arts)
Keywords:
Yeats, Voice, Science, Žižek, Reason, Freedom, dialectics, Lacan, remainder, Kant, claustrophobia, materialism, Bishop, Hegel, literature, literariness, Kafka, void of the Other
Rights:
All rights reserved (no additional license for public reuse)
Issued Date:
2014/04/24