A Derridean-Kierkgegaardian Interpretation of Writing: Imprisonment and Freedom

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dc.contributor.advisorStern, Michaelen_US
dc.contributor.authorMahan, Williamen_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-10-03T23:35:45Z
dc.date.available2013-10-03T23:35:45Z
dc.date.issued2013-10-03
dc.description.abstractMy thesis is an argument that writing is a struggle of imprisonment and freedom. I argue that a text gains a certain level of power, such that it controls the writer, reader, and critic alike. Yet at the same time, the work presents all of these people with a possibility of freedom, seducing them in with the task of sharing the text's `secret' or deeper meaning via indirect communication. This `imprisonment' is voluntary if the reader wishes to engage with the text in a way that opens the text for a revelation of a deeper meaning, unique to each reader. The writer offers his text as a `gift', an idea heavily influenced by Jacques Derrida's writings in The Gift of Death. I argue that that the presence and absence of the secret is one element of the author's work, which creates the relationship of confinement and freedom identified with writing.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/13304
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregonen_US
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved.en_US
dc.subjectDerridaen_US
dc.subjectFreedomen_US
dc.subjectKierkegaarden_US
dc.subjectMeaningen_US
dc.subjectSecreten_US
dc.subjectWritingen_US
dc.titleA Derridean-Kierkgegaardian Interpretation of Writing: Imprisonment and Freedomen_US
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertationen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineDepartment of German and Scandinavianen_US
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregonen_US
thesis.degree.levelmastersen_US
thesis.degree.nameM.A.en_US

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