T.s. Eliot Body Disappear And Interpretation Of Poetry

From the perspective of vanished subjectivity, this dissertation analyzes the dilemma of interpreting T.S.Eliot’s poems in the context of "double death" of speakers and the author. Apart from that, this dissertation also studies the general reading situation in the era of post-"the death of author". The dissertation, as a whole, can divide into four parts as follows:Preface:Reading T.S.Eliot in the present context This chapter reviews the past study on T.S.Eliot and claims the feasibility and creativity of the chosen perspective and the predictive achievement.Chapter One:Subjectivity Death in the Poetry of T.S.Eliot This chapter, based on works, suggests the feature of "double death" of speakers’and Eliot’s own subjectivities which are contained in Eliot’s poetry.There are two sections in this chapter. Section one Inscription,Blots,and the Death of Speakers This section analyzes the contradiction between the title and the epigraph,that is, the former marks the name or identity of speakers while the later smears them and the subjectivity of the speaker disappears by this sort of smearing. Section Two:"Narratage"and the Death of Writer This section mainly analyzes the polyphony character which is contained in Eliot’s poems and points to the lost of the authority of T.S.Eliot as a writer.Chapter Two:Reading in the context of post-" death of author". This chapter discusses the interpretation dilemma exists in Eliot’s poems and how to read in the context of subjectivity absence and studies a general reading situation in the era of post-"death of author". There are two sections in this chapter. Section One:Dilemma in the Interpretation of T.S.Eliot’s Poems This section analyzes some prevalent phenomenon, such as, the indistinct image of speakers and non-coherence between the title and content and points to the dilemma as a result of the absence of subjectivity.Section Two:Reading in the era of absent subjectivity. This section compares T.S.Eliot’s notion about interpretation to the other three theorists who advocated "the death of author "and claims there is no completely free reading activity even in the ear of "post-death of author"Conclusion T.S.Eliot:Modernist or Post-modernist?To sum all above analysis up, the proposed conclusion of the dissertation is that T.S.Eliot’s poetry is a kind of manifesto of "the death of subjectivity" and a diagnosis of "the death of author".Besides,through the discussion of modernism and post-modernism and the identity of T.S.Eliot himself, the dissertation manifests the feasibility of this conclusion...