Desire deferred: (Re‐)reading Eco's Labyrinths
| Autor: | Leora Cruddas |
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| Rok vydání: | 1996 |
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| Zdroj: | Journal of Literary Studies. 12:314-337 |
| ISSN: | 1753-5387 0256-4718 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/02564719608530142 |
| Popis: | Summary I will explore the operation of the labyrinth both within The Name of the Rose (1984) (as Eco's labyrinth) and as a condition of reading (as the labyrinth of discourse). The paper is about this potentially infinite space of conjecture outside of which one can never step. My project is thus similar to that of metaphor. Metaphor does not afford access to truth or meaning: it is both a provisional loss of meaning (because of its dissemination within syntax, its passing through a supplement of syntactic resistance), and a history with its sights set on the reappropriation of literal meaning.1 So too, the labyrinth as metaphor governs the production and retrieval of meaning, or rather elides the two. The labyrinth may be seen to confound positions of reader and writer: it belongs to none and floats as metaphor and of metaphor, unable to coordinate metaphor with the production of truth. As the dominant metaphor it will not return to the major transcendental signifieds, God or the Sun. Metaphor celebrate... |
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