Liminal Readings: Forms of Otherness in Melville, Joyce and by David S. Arnold

By David S. Arnold

By means of exploring the spiritual dimensions of significant sorts of sleek fiction, the writer goals to light up specific methods of figuring out the importance of narrative for reviews in literature and faith.

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By David S. Arnold

By means of exploring the spiritual dimensions of significant sorts of sleek fiction, the writer goals to light up specific methods of figuring out the importance of narrative for reviews in literature and faith.

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And of all these things the Albino Whale was the symbol. Wonder ye then at the fiery hunt? 'The Whiteness of the Whale', Moby Dick, Ch. 42 44 Liminal Readings If we take the Ernersonian distinction between the 'Me' and the 'not-Me' as the executive principle responsible for a work's formal coherence, we would note the problem of otherness emerging at those self-transcending moments of consciousness when the self comes into 'contact with all that lies outside the sel£'. 10 I suggest that these moments are given thematic point by taking note of ways in which wonder functions in the text, and that the fullest portion of Moby Dick's meaning emerges when we note the responses such otherness elicits from Ishmael, Ahab and the reader.

It is nothing but a tremendous intuition striving for expression. 63 It may be noted that in this passage Jung attends to expressive and mimetic features suggested by Abrams's model of the literary work of art. Jung, in a passage frequently quoted, speaks more thoroughly, in Kantian overtones, of the inferential quality of art as pointing back to archetypal 'psychic residua'. I think it gives important insights into Jung's position, and thus the quote is offered in full: The collective unconscious is not to be thought of as a self- Limning the Literary Universe 35 subsistant entity; it is no more than a potentiality handed down to us from primordial times in the specific forms of mnemonic images or inherited in the anatomical structure of the brain.

One can hear in the following two quotes from David Hoy and Wheelwright both the respect for the otherness of the literary work and the need to make anthropological claims for the word 'meaning' that necessarily reach beyond the text to the experience of liminality: If we did not experience the text as other, if we experienced it as merely something of our own invention or something completely familiar (Schleiermacher), we would not be caught up by and interested in the text. 29 To be conscious is not just to be; it is to mean, to intend, to point beyond oneself, to testify that some kind of beyond exists, and to be ever on the verge of entering into it altough never in the state of having full entered.

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