DOCSLIB.ORG

Shelley's Human Spirits of Language / by John Whatley

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Shelley's Human Spirits of Language / by John Whatley SHELLEY'S HUMAN SPIRITS OF LANGUAGE John Whatley B.A. Chapman College California, 1969 M.A. Simon Fraser University, 1979 THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in the Department of English John Whatley 1990 SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY ' All rights reserved. This work may not be reproduced in whole or in part, by photocopy or other means, without permission of the author. APPROVAL NAME: John Whatley DEGREE: Doctcx of Pllilosophy (Eng'M) TITLE OF THESIS: Shelley's Human Spirits of Language - Paul Delany , Senfor SupeIviwr Professor of English . - ~{fry~as~ove Associate Professor of English Ian ~yiic Assistant Professor of History - -,.--- -&en ~uguid - Internal External Examiner Director, Extension Credit Programs Continuing Saxdies Tilottama ~ajd External Examiner Professor of English University of Wisconsin -Madison Date Approved: April 9, 1990 PARTIAL COPYRIGHT LICENSE I hereby grant to Simon Fraser University the right to lend my thesis, project or extended essay (the title of which is shown below) to users of the Simon Fraser University Library, and to make partial or single copies only for such users or in response to a request from the library of any other university, or other educational Institution, on its own behalf or for one of its users. I further agree that permission for multiple copying of this work for scholarly purposes may be granted by me or the Dean of Graduate Studies. It is understood Ohat copying or publication of this work for financial gain shall not be allowed without my written permission. Title of Thes i s/Project/Extended Essay She1 1 ey 's Human Spirits of Language ~~th~~:John What1 ey (signature) I ABSTRACT For romantic criticism since the Victorian age, the symbolism of Shelley's poetry has often been an object of reverence; Shelley's symbols enact, incorporate or invoke rather than simply signify and, for some, they can constitute a world. Modern theorists who have supported such ideas, (Wasserman, Bloom, Perkins) are, today, very much on the defensive, and one of their most fervent critics is Paul de Man. My dissertation argues that de Man's criticism of Shelley, based in Saussurian linguistics, Derridean notions of textuality, and Sartrean philosophy, seems able to deal with the symbolic forms and modes of Shelley's poetry only through a complete erasure. I argue, further, that this erasure, an ultimate form of reductionism, ignores Shelley's own ideas about symbolism and their philosophi- cal influences. My thesis approaches the semiotics of Shelley's symbolism through its chronology. The developmental perspective shows that de Man's criticism replaces a very complex series of influences with the singular name of Rousseau. Rousseau is an influential figure, but, as I hope to show, Godwin is more important when it comes to Shelley's understandings of the basic categories and dynamics of language. iii In Shelley, I argue, we are dealing with a poet who is very conscious of the theoretical side of language and who, , throughout this career, varies his use of signs along a number of dimensions. If we are to capture some of the richness of this experimentation, we cannot narrow our approach to de Man's dualism in which the two perspectives of symbol and sign work themselves out in ambiguities of dominance, a struggle in which sign eventually wins. In the thesis I argue that a semiotic criticism based in Godwin's theory of opinion is the more accurate, compelling and productive notion with which to explain Shelley's symbolism. TABLE OF CONTENTS APPROVAL PAGE .............................................ii ABSTRACT ..................................................iii I . SHELLEY CRITICISM AND THE POST-STRUCTURALIST CRITIQUE Linguistic Reference and the New Critics ..............3 David Perkins: Shelley as Symbolist ...................6 Earl Wasserman: Shelley and Constitutive Syntax ......11 De Man and Symbolism .................................20 De Man. Cratylism and Paronamasis ....................26 De Man and Shelley's "The Triumph of Life" ...........32 De Man and Social Reference ..........................37 De Man and the Chronology of Shelley's Poetry ........43 Notes ................................................47 EXPERIMENTS WITH THE SYMBOL IN SHELLEY'S GOTHIC NOVELS ZASTROZZI ............................................55 Zastrozzi as anti-Symbolist: The Sign as Lie .........56 True Symbol. True Gesture and Desire in Zastrozzi ....66 Atheism and Gesture: Matilda's Blandishments ........73 The Semiotics of Shelley's Zastrozzi................. 78 ST IRVYNE; OR. THE ROSICRUCIAN .......................81 Gesture and its Doubles: Ginotti and Wolfstein .......83 Ginotti as Symbol ....................................91 Ginotti and the Potential Unities of Mind ............99 The Semiotics of Ginotti as Symbol ..................103 Notes ...............................................107 I11 . THEORY OF OPINION IN "QUEEN MAB" AND "ALASTOR" Queen Mab and the General Principles of Allegory,,.ll7 Queen Mab and Godwin's Perfectability of Man.. .....124 Queen Mab: Religion As An Allegory of the Lie .....129 Queen Mab: The Paradoxical Symbol .................136 "Alastor": Discourse and Silence.................. 141 Alastor's Symbolism ................................153 Notes ..............................................160 IV. THEORY OF OPINION IN "MONT BLANC" Mont Blanc: Discourse versus Symbol ................167 Stanza I: Theory of Language ....................... 173 Stanza 11: First Application of the Theory .........174 Stanza 111: Counter Voice ..........................185 Stanza IV: Defeat and Pessimism ....................190 Stanza V: Reassertion of The Vocative ..............193 Variations of Godwints Opinion in Some Later Poems.196 Notes ..............................................204 V . DE MAN. ROUSSEAU AND GODWIN IN "THE TRIUMPH OF LIFE" The Structure of "The Triumph of Life" ..............207 The Plane of the Ideal ..............................210 The Car and Social Autism ...........................215 Rousseau as Topos ...................................225 Rousseau. Discourse and A Shape All Light ...........230 Notes ...............................................246 CONCLUSION ...............................................250 BIBLIOGRAPHY .............................................256 CHAPTER I I SHELLEY CRITICISM AND THE POST-STRUCTURALIST CRITIQUE In recent years, a number of critical works have applied deconstructionist and semiotic ideas to Shelley's poetry: William Keach's -Shelley's Style (1984), Tilottama Rajan's chapter on Shelley in her Dark Interpreter: -The Discourse- -of ---Romanticism (1980), Frances Ferguson's "Shel- ley's Mont Blanc: What the Mountain Said" (1984) and Angela Leighton's "Deconstruction Criticism and Shelley's Adonais" (1983). are examples.' These readings of Shelley have a common thread: they are all, in varying degrees and orienta- tions, responses to a new, critical view of Romanticism. The basis for this re-evaluation has been a fertile blending of structuralist linguistics with disciplines like philoso- phy, theories of history, psychoanalysis and rhetoric and is ~ the product of such seminal thinkers as Derrida, Lacan, Barthes, and Foucault. The first, definitive application of deconstructionist ideas to Shelley appeared in an article by Paul de Man called "Shelley Disfigured1' (1979). In it de Man concludes that in his last major poem, The Triumph --of Life (1822), Shelley has become so enmeshed in his own procedure of disruption as to disrupt his own progressive faiths and belief in the privileged nature of poetry. De Man discovers a deconstructionist consciousness in the poem which goes far beyond the degree and range of skepticism usually allowed Shelley and which achieves a progressive 'erasure' of faith, certainty and symbolism as the poem's chariot progresses through its various stages. This undoing culminates in the aporias of the "shape all light" which de Man sees as a figure for 'the figurality of all signification' and an ultimate instance of the illusoriness of romantic symbolism. The essay, a brilliant and provocative --tour de foyce, has set the tone of the current debate about Shelley's language. To show what I think is at stake in this critique, I will, first, relate de Man's view of Shelley to earlier critical work on Shelley's imagery. Seen from the perspective of this previous criticism, we can begin to find the limits, and the basic critical values, of de Man's theory. As my thesis will counter many of these values, we need first to see them clearly. I hope to show that De Man's provocative analysis is limited to a certain aspect of Shelley's poetry and is thus less compelling than might at first be supposed. The criticism of Shelley that appeared just before literary structuralism made its debut often includes a type of language analysis. Harold Bloom's Shelley's Mythmaking-- (1959), David Perkins' -The Quest -for ---Permanence (1959) and especially Earl Wasserman's The Subtler Language (1959) are well known works which devote a lot of attention to the problem of Shelley's orientation to words as such. They were given us by a critical generation that saw its task as the defense of Shelley's meaning in the face of the New Critics' negative judgements. These first attempts to ground Shelley criticism in a wider theory of signs argued that Shelley's poetry, like Blake's work, rearranged the basic referential category of words and that this, in turn,
Load more

Recommended publications
  • PAPERS in NEW GUINEA LINGUISTICS No. 18
    PACIFIC LINGUISTICS S e.ft-<- e..6 A - No. 4 0 PAPERS IN NEW GUINEA LINGUISTICS No. 18 by R. Conrad and W. Dye N.P. Thomson L.P. Bruce, Jr. Department of Linguistics Research School of Pacific Studies THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY Conrad, R., Dye, W., Thomson, N. and Bruce Jr., L. editors. Papers in New Guinea Linguistics No. 18. A-40, iv + 106 pages. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1975. DOI:10.15144/PL-A40.cover ©1975 Pacific Linguistics and/or the author(s). Online edition licensed 2015 CC BY-SA 4.0, with permission of PL. A sealang.net/CRCL initiative. PACIFIC LINGUISTICS is published by the Ling ui��ic Ci�cl e 06 Canbe��a and consists of four series: SERIES A - OCCAS IONAL PAPERS SERIES B - MONOGRAPHS SERIES C - BOOKS SERIES V - SPECIAL PUBLICATIONS . EDITOR: S.A. Wurm . ASSOCIATE EDITORS: D.C. Laycock , C.L. Voorhoeve . ALL CORRESPONDENCE concerning PACIFIC LINGUISTICS, including orders and subscriptions, should be addressed to: The Secretary, PACIFIC LINGUISTICS, Department of Linguistics, School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra , A.C.T. 2600. Australia . Copyright � The Authors. First published 1975 . The editors are indebted to the Australian National University for help in the production of this series. This publication was made possible by an initial grant from the Hunter Douglas Fund. National Library of Australia Card Number and ISBN 0 85883 118 X TABLE OF CONTENTS Page SOME LANGUAGE RELATIONSHIPS IN THE UPPER SEPIK REGION OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA, by Robert Conrad and Wayne Dye 1 O. INTRODUCTION 1 1 .
    [Show full text]
  • A Study of the Trope
    University of Nebraska at Omaha DigitalCommons@UNO Student Work 11-1-1968 A study of the trope Glenn Starnes Lindsey University of Nebraska at Omaha Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/studentwork Recommended Citation Lindsey, Glenn Starnes, "A study of the trope" (1968). Student Work. 352. https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/studentwork/352 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@UNO. It has been accepted for inclusion in Student Work by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UNO. For more information, please contact [email protected]. A STUDY OF THE TROPE A Thesis Presented to the Department of English and the Faculty of the College of Graduate Studies University of Omaha In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts by Glenn Starnes Lindsey November 1968 UMI Number: EP72990 All rights reserved INFORMATION TO ALL USERS The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. In the unlikely event that the author did not send a complete manuscript and there are missing pages, these will be noted. Also, if material had to be removed, a note will indicate the deletion. Dissipation Publishing UMI EP72990 Published by ProQuest LLC (2015). Copyright in the Dissertation held by the Author. Microform Edition © ProQuest LLC. All rights reserved. This work is protected against unauthorized copying under Title 17, United States Code uest ProQuest LLC. 789 East Eisenhower Parkway P.O. Box 1346 Ann Arbor, Ml 48106- 1346 Accepted for the faculty of the College of Graduate Studies of University of Omaha, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Arts, m t irman Department Department 'sK.
    [Show full text]
  • Philosophy Through Literature
    JUKKA MIKKONEN Philosophy through Literature The cognitive value of philosophical fiction ACADEMIC DISSERTATION To be presented, with the permission of the board of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Tampere, for public discussion in the Auditorium Pinni B 1097, Kanslerinrinne 1, Tampere, on November 11th, 2011, at 10 o’clock. UNIVERSITY OF TAMPERE ACADEMIC DISSERTATION University of Tampere School of Humanities and Social Sciences Finland Distribution Tel. +358 40 190 9800 Bookshop TAJU Fax +358 3 3551 7685 P.O. Box 617 [email protected] 33014 University of Tampere www.uta.fi/taju Finland http://granum.uta.fi Cover design by Mikko Reinikka Acta Universitatis Tamperensis 1662 Acta Electronica Universitatis Tamperensis 1125 ISBN 978-951-44-8586-2 (print) ISBN 978-951-44-8587-9 (pdf) ISSN-L 1455-1616 ISSN 1456-954X ISSN 1455-1616 http://acta.uta.fi Tampereen Yliopistopaino Oy – Juvenes Print Tampere 2011 Acknowledgements First of all, I want to express my deepest appreciation and gratitude to five people without whom this study would not have been accomplished. My official supervisor and teacher Prof. Leila Haaparanta has provided me invaluable advice and greatly clarified my fuzzy thoughts over the years; Prof. Sami Pihlström (University of Jyväskylä) has given me valuable remarks and support especially in the beginning of my work; Dr. Päivi Mehtonen (University of Tampere) has taught me how to write and worked both as a midwife for and a great critic of my views; from Prof. Arto Haapala (University of Helsinki) I have learnt that rigour is the greatest virtue in philosophy and that one should always prefer reason and argument over intellectual trends currently in fashion; Dr.
    [Show full text]
  • London, Ontario December 1997
    DIALOGUES OF DESIRE: INTERTEXTUAL NARUTION IN THE WORKS OF MARY SHELLEY AND WILLIAM GODWIN Ranita Chatterjee Department of English Submitted in pzrtial fulfilrnent of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Faculty of Graduate Studies The University of Western Ontario London, Ontario December 1997 O Ranita Chatterjee 1998 National Library Bibliothèque nationale 1*1 of Canada du Canada Acquisitions and Acquisitions et Bibliographie SeMces services bibliographiques 395 Wellington Street 395, rue Wellington Ottawa ON K1A ON4 Ottawa ON K1A ON4 Canada Canada The author has granted a non- L'auteur a accordé une licence non exclusive licence dowing the exclusive permettant à la National Library of Canada to Bibliothèque nationale du Canada de reproduce, loan, distniute or sell reproduire, prêter, distribuer ou copies of this thesis in microfom, vendre des copies de cette thèse sous paper or electronic formats. la forme de microfichelnlm, de reproduction sur papier ou sur format électronique. The author retains ownership of the L'auteur conserve la propriété du copyright in this thesis. Neither the droit d'auteur qui protège cette thèse. thesis nor substantial extracts fiom it Ni la thése ni des extraits substantiels may be p~tedor otherwise de celle-ci ne doivent êeimprimés reproduced without the author's ou autrement reproduits sans son permission. autorisation. ABSTRACT Using Julia Kristeva's concept of intertextuality and Lacan's theories of desire, this study ârgues that there is a dialogic process that generates and circulates an "excess" of meaning that conscripts the desires of future readers in and between William Godwin's and Mary Shelley's fictional and non-fictional writings.
    [Show full text]
  • The Comparative Study of First and Second Language Acquisition
    DOCd ENT :LESdeE ED 143 218 • FL 008 786 AUTHOR Spolsky, Bernard . TITLE The Comparative Study of First and Second Language Acquisition. PUB DATE Mar 77 NOTE 36p.; Paper presented at the Annual Linguistics Symposium on Language Acquisition (6th, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, March 18-19, 1977) EDRS PRICE MF-$0.83 HC-$2.06 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *Child Language; Comiunicative Competence (Languages); Interdisciplinary Approach; *Language Development; Language Research; Language Usage; Language Variation; *Linguistic Theoty; *Psycholinguistics; *Second Language Learning ABSTRACT The interaction between theoretical linguistics and language teaching has historically been problematic. This interaction is viewed here from the standpoint of educational linguistics, which is the intersection of linguistics sand related language sciences with formal ard informal education. Thé issue is the relevant educational problem that knowledge about language acquisiticn could help -solve. To this end, three related questions from the fields of psycholinguistics and language acquisition are investigated: (1) Wliat is the normal course of the development of language in an individual? (2) Given the normal range of individual variability in the development of communicative competence, what factors account for this variation? (3) Which of these factors ate susceptible-to control by an educational system? It is felt that the answers to these questions are basic to language education, since they both set its limits and suggest the kind of intervention that might permit helping each individual. (CLK) The Comparative Stiidy of -- First and Second Language Acquisition Bernard Spolsky The University of New Mexico A paper read at the Sixth Annual University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Linguistics Symposium on Language Acquisition, March 18-19, 1977.
    [Show full text]
  • Misreading Skepticism in the Long Eighteenth Century: Studies in the Rhetoric of Assent
    Misreading Skepticism in the Long Eighteenth Century: Studies in the Rhetoric of Assent By Adam Sneed A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (English Language and Literature) in the University of Michigan 2018 Doctoral Committee: Professor Marjorie Levinson, Chair Professor Gregg Crane Associate Professor Sean Silver Professor Silke Maria-Weineck Adam Sneed [email protected] ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9205-1715 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS My first thanks must be to the University of Michigan for the opportunity and privilege to pursue the life of the mind. I am deeply grateful for the tremendous and constant support provided by faculty and staff of the UM English Department. I am indebted to the Rackham School of Graduate Studies for two timely dissertation fellowships and to the U-M LSA International Institute for the opportunity to pursue archival research in Scotland. I thank the members of my dissertation committee: Sean Silver for providing a constant model of passionate, creative scholarship; Gregg Crane for first dislodging me from a neo-Kantian, Skeptical perspective; Silke Maria-Weineck for cheering on the polemic; and my wonderful chair, Marjorie Levinson, for supporting and encouraging me at every stage of the dissertation process and for bearing with me as the project evolved over time. I would like to thank my dear friends Samuel Heidepriem, Emily Waples, Logan Scherer, Kristin Fraser Geisler, Ryan Hampstead, Joe Chapman, Anthony Losapio, Sarah Mass, Alice Tsay, Lizzy Mathie, and Amrita Dhar for their love and support through the years in Ann Arbor. Special thanks to my dear friends Kathryne Bevilacqua, John Paul Hampstead, and Julia Hansen, who read and commented on drafts in the final stages.
    [Show full text]
  • Library of Congress Subject Headings for the Pacific Islands
    Library of Congress Subject Headings for the Pacific Islands First compiled by Nancy Sack and Gwen Sinclair Updated by Nancy Sack Current to January 2020 Library of Congress Subject Headings for the Pacific Islands Background An inquiry from a librarian in Micronesia about how to identify subject headings for the Pacific islands highlighted the need for a list of authorized Library of Congress subject headings that are uniquely relevant to the Pacific islands or that are important to the social, economic, or cultural life of the islands. We reasoned that compiling all of the existing subject headings would reveal the extent to which additional subjects may need to be established or updated and we wish to encourage librarians in the Pacific area to contribute new and changed subject headings through the Hawai‘i/Pacific subject headings funnel, coordinated at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.. We captured headings developed for the Pacific, including those for ethnic groups, World War II battles, languages, literatures, place names, traditional religions, etc. Headings for subjects important to the politics, economy, social life, and culture of the Pacific region, such as agricultural products and cultural sites, were also included. Scope Topics related to Australia, New Zealand, and Hawai‘i would predominate in our compilation had they been included. Accordingly, we focused on the Pacific islands in Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia (excluding Hawai‘i and New Zealand). Island groups in other parts of the Pacific were also excluded. References to broader or related terms having no connection with the Pacific were not included. Overview This compilation is modeled on similar publications such as Music Subject Headings: Compiled from Library of Congress Subject Headings and Library of Congress Subject Headings in Jewish Studies.
    [Show full text]
  • The Gothic Element in Shelley's Writings
    31o/96 THE GOTHIC ELEMENT IN SHELLEY'S WRITINGS THESIS Presented to the Graduate Council of the North Texas State Teachers College in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of MASTER OF ARTS By Olna Oatis Boaz, B. A. Denton, Texas January, 1948 151916 151916 TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter Page I. SHELLEY'S INTRODUCTION TO GOTHICISM . 1 II. IMITATION OF GOTHICISM . 18 III. TRANSMUTATION OF GOTHICISM . 82 BIBLIOGRAPHY . 0 0.. 0 .0 0 .. 0 .0 .. .0 .. .124 1ii CHAPTER I SHETLLEY'S INTRODUCTION TO GOTHICISM A sense of wonder, a love of the strange, a desire to feel the icy touch of fear are deeply rooted instincts of man. All tellers of tales know the lure of the marvelous. The shadow of terror and the sense of wonder lurk in folk tales and ballads, in myths, and in legends. The myth makers of civilization's infancy, the story tellers of olden times, the court minstrels, singing of heroic exploits, the old housewives in chimney corners, telling their tales of fairies, ghosts, and goblins, have all made use of the strange, the terrible, and the wonderful. Shelley, as befitted any boy gifted with a lively curiosity and a vivid imagination, was interested in the wonderful, the mysterious, and the strange. He loved to relate wonder tales to his little sisters; and he invented a fabulous tortoise inhabiting Warnham Pond, an equally fabulous snake of great age, and an old alchemist, who lived in the attic of Field Place. These flights of his versatile imagination excited the children and filled their minds with a pleasurable dread.
    [Show full text]
  • The Gothic Novel 1790–1830: Plot Summaries and Index to Motifs
    University of Kentucky UKnowledge Literature in English, British Isles English Language and Literature 1981 The Gothic Novel 1790–1830: Plot Summaries and Index to Motifs Ann B. Tracy State University of New York, Plattsburgh Click here to let us know how access to this document benefits ou.y Thanks to the University of Kentucky Libraries and the University Press of Kentucky, this book is freely available to current faculty, students, and staff at the University of Kentucky. Find other University of Kentucky Books at uknowledge.uky.edu/upk. For more information, please contact UKnowledge at [email protected]. Recommended Citation Tracy, Ann B., "The Gothic Novel 1790–1830: Plot Summaries and Index to Motifs" (1981). Literature in English, British Isles. 57. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_english_language_and_literature_british_isles/57 For Mary Jane Keith Schildberg, an early and sinister influence ooooooooooooo::x:oooooooooooocooooooooooooooooooooocoooooc:oooooooooooo This page intentionally left blank The Gothic Novel 1790-1830 ClOOOOOOOOOOOO'OOOOClOOOCIOOOCC CC CO CO CO CO CIXIOOOOOQOOO CO CC CO CO DCCC COCO COCO CO CO CO COCO CO CO COCO COCO CO COOOCXKXIOOOOOOCOOCO Plot Summaries and Index to Motifs ANN B. TRACY THE UNIVERSITY PRESS OF KENTUCKY Publication of this book has been assisted by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Tracy, Ann Blaisdell. The Gothic novel, 1790-1830. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 1. English fiction - 19th century - Stories,
    [Show full text]
  • Languages of Irian Jaya: Checklist. Preliminary Classification, Language Maps, Wordlists
    PACIFIC LINGUISTICS S elLA..e.� B - No. 3 1 LANGUAGES OF IRIAN JAYA CHECKLIST PRELIMINARY CLASSIFICATION, LANGUAGE MAPS, WORDLISTS by C.L. Voorhoeve Department of Linguistics Research School of Pacific Studies THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY Voorhoeve, C.L. Languages of Irian Jaya: Checklist. Preliminary classification, language maps, wordlists. B-31, iv + 133 pages. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1975. DOI:10.15144/PL-B31.cover ©1975 Pacific Linguistics and/or the author(s). Online edition licensed 2015 CC BY-SA 4.0, with permission of PL. A sealang.net/CRCL initiative. ------ ---------------------------- PACIFIC LINGUISTICS is published by the Lingui�tic Ci�cte 06 Canbe��a and consists of four series: SERIES A - OCCASIONAL PAPERS SERIES B - MONOGRAPHS SERIES C - BOOKS SERIES V - SPECIAL PU BLICATIONS. EDITOR: S.A. Wurm. ASSOCIATE EDITORS: D.C. Laycock, C.L. Voorhoeve, D.T. Tryon, T.E. Dutton. ALL CORRESPONDENCE concerning PACIF IC LINGUISTICS, including orders and subscriptions, should be addressed to: The Secretary, PACIFIC LINGUISTICS, Department of Linguistics, School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University, Box 4, P.O., Canberra, A.C.T. 2600 . Australia. Copyright � C.L. Voorhoeve. First published 1975. Reprinted 1980. The editors are indebted to the Australian National University for help in the production of this series. This publication was made possible by an initial grant from the Hunter Douglas Fund. National Library of Australia Card Number and ISBN 0 85883 128 7 TAB LE OF CONTENTS
    [Show full text]
  • Pico Della Mirandola Descola Gardner Eco Vernant Vidal-Naquet Clément
    George Hermonymus Melchior Wolmar Janus Lascaris Guillaume Budé Peter Brook Jean Toomer Mullah Nassr Eddin Osho (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh) Jerome of Prague John Wesley E. J. Gold Colin Wilson Henry Sinclair, 2nd Baron Pent... Olgivanna Lloyd Wright P. L. Travers Maurice Nicoll Katherine Mansfield Robert Fripp John G. Bennett James Moore Girolamo Savonarola Thomas de Hartmann Wolfgang Capito Alfred Richard Orage Damião de Góis Frank Lloyd Wright Oscar Ichazo Olga de Hartmann Alexander Hegius Keith Jarrett Jane Heap Galen mathematics Philip Melanchthon Protestant Scholasticism Jeanne de Salzmann Baptist Union in the Czech Rep... Jacob Milich Nicolaus Taurellus Babylonian astronomy Jan Standonck Philip Mairet Moravian Church Moshé Feldenkrais book Negative theologyChristian mysticism John Huss religion Basil of Caesarea Robert Grosseteste Richard Fitzralph Origen Nick Bostrom Tomáš Štítný ze Štítného Scholastics Thomas Bradwardine Thomas More Unity of the Brethren William Tyndale Moses Booker T. Washington Prakash Ambedkar P. D. Ouspensky Tukaram Niebuhr John Colet Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī Panjabrao Deshmukh Proclian Jan Hus George Gurdjieff Social Reform Movement in Maha... Gilpin Constitution of the United Sta... Klein Keohane Berengar of Tours Liber de causis Gregory of Nyssa Benfield Nye A H Salunkhe Peter Damian Sleigh Chiranjeevi Al-Farabi Origen of Alexandria Hildegard of Bingen Sir Thomas More Zimmerman Kabir Hesychasm Lehrer Robert G. Ingersoll Mearsheimer Ram Mohan Roy Bringsjord Jervis Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III Alain de Lille Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud Honorius of Autun Fränkel Synesius of Cyrene Symonds Theon of Alexandria Religious Society of Friends Boyle Walt Maximus the Confessor Ducasse Rāja yoga Amaury of Bene Syrianus Mahatma Phule Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Qur'an Cappadocian Fathers Feldman Moncure D.
    [Show full text]
  • For an Anthropological History of Indigenous Discourse 1
    Paideusis - Journal for Interdisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Studies: Volume 1 / 1998 ARTICLES FOR AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL HISTORY OF INDIGENOUS DISCOURSE 1 James Weiner Department of Anthropology Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies Australian National University E-mail: [email protected] Abstract In this paper I poise the particularism of anthropological studies of local discourse, which from my point of view, must begin with a view of language as verbal behaviour, ranged alongside of and not ontologically different from other observable behaviours, with the overly semiotized version of language that underlies a great deal of discourse analysis within avowedly Cultural Studies versions of social science. I polemically contrast these approaches with reference to my own long-term study of the verbal and discursive techniques of the Foi people of Papua New Guinea. Finally, I make a claim for the inherent multi-disciplinarity of anthropology, and poise this against the repressed monodisciplinary effects of Cultural Studies methodology. Key words: anthropology, language, Papua New Guinea, cultural studies, inter-disciplinarity Since the end of 1994, when I resumed fieldwork in Papua New Guinea after a seven year absence, I have been engaged in research on the public talk of the Foi people of Papua New Guinea as it is being shaped by the transformation their environment and society is currently undergoing as a result of petroleum exploration and extraction in their area, which began in 1989. The results of this research project I am currently engaged in will complete (temporarily) the ethnographic project that started in 1979 with my initial dissertation research.
    [Show full text]