Poetry and the Limits of Language  

作　　者：Lyn Mc Credden 

机构地区：[1]Deakin University

出　　处：《Language and Semiotic Studies》2015年第4期95-107,共13页语言与符号学研究（英文）

摘　　要：This essay argues that poetic language offers the possibility of meaning and value,and simultaneously points beyond itself,to the limits of language,to a space differently confi gured as erasure,silence,the unsignifi able.What does it suggest,epistemologically and ontologically,if we acknowledge this double action of poetic language?What might this space beyond language be,and what difference does it make if we acknowledge this space?The essay examines four poems and the different ways in which they acknowledge such a space,drawing on the historically distinct approaches of Meister Eckhart and Jacques Derrida in order to ask what the space beyond language might be.The argument of the essay is that in acknowledging such a space something opens up for writers and readers of poetry:a different approach to knowing,and a potentially humbled ontological position.This essay argues that poetic language offers the possibility of meaning and value, and simultaneously points beyond itself, to the limits of language, to a space differently confi gured as erasure, silence, the unsignifi able. What does it suggest, epistemologically and ontologically, if we acknowledge this double action of poetic language? What might this space beyond language be, and what difference does it make if we acknowledge this space? The essay examines four poems and the different ways in which they acknowledge such a space, drawing on the historically distinct approaches of Meister Eckhart and Jacques Derrida in order to ask what the space beyond language might be. The argument of the essay is that in acknowledging such a space something opens up for writers and readers of poetry: a different approach to knowing, and a potentially humbled ontological position.

关 键 词：POETRY poetic language MEANING-MAKING limits of language 

分 类 号：I106.2[文学—世界文学]