Lit Theory
by culhwch on Apr.28, 2009, under general blog
So I’m writing a literary theory paper analyzing Hildegard’s theory of the cosmos in Scivias. I seem to be reaching the conclusion that literary theory itself is on some questionable moral ground, so long as it involves a stage of critique which attempts to assert authority. It seems like all attempts within the Hildegard text to ground the authority of the text involve some sort of a turn away from the transcendent, something which attempts to subvert God as ultimate authority…
All this basically means is that this branch of literary theory is highly suspect (as is might be my attempt to analyze it)
~david
May 20th, 2009 on 11:50 am
This is Kara’s Brian speaking. You’ve happened upon an intriguing notion here–one along similar lines to a theory I have and that I have explored in a paper I wrote in response to Keat’s “Urn.” Moreover, I question whether we, as those who perhaps recognize/experience a divine “poesis” at work through literature, are obligated to refrain from such analytical pursuits. The irony, I suppose, is that throughout the course of my paper I analyze that very philosophy.