In Search for the Lost Connection: Hierarchical Tensions as a Unified Way of Deriving Meaning

Daniil Ozernyi

doi:10.23918/ijsses.v6i2p102

Article Details

In Search for the Lost Connection: Hierarchical Tensions as a Unified Way of Deriving Meaning

Authors:

Daniil Ozernyi

Publisher:

Tishk International University (TIU)

Journal:

International Journal of Social Sciences & Educational Studies Vol.6 Issue 2, pp.102-108

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

1/2019

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2001369753

pISSN:

2520-0968

DOI:

10.23918/ijsses.v6i2p102

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Abstract:

 The current study challenges the well-established close reading approach to teaching American literature. To establish the initial framework for analysis, a brief account of the role of the author in literary theory is given (Gadamer’s and Iser’s hermeneutics, Formalists, New Critics, and Post-Modernists). Thereafter, using the example of Teju Cole’s Open City, it is shown that the meaning of the work could be derived from building connections instead of assigning eclectic meaning to the eclectic fragments of the text. The offered approach both proves useful while teaching non-linear works of fiction and offers students an insight into authenticity of author’s work through its self-reflexivity.

Article Details

In Search for the Lost Connection: Hierarchical Tensions as a Unified Way of Deriving Meaning

Authors:

Daniil Ozernyi

Publisher:

Tishk International University (TIU)

Journal:

International Journal of Social Sciences & Educational Studies Vol.6 Issue 2, pp.102-108

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

1/2019

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2001369753

pISSN:

2520-0968

DOI:

10.23918/ijsses.v6i2p102

Literary Theory

Open City

Post-Modernism

Authenticity

Issues

Article Details

In Search for the Lost Connection: Hierarchical Tensions as a Unified Way of Deriving Meaning

Authors: Daniil Ozernyi

Publisher: Tishk International University (TIU)

Journal: International Journal of Social Sciences & Educational Studies Vol.6 Issue 2, pp.102-108

Document Type: Article

Publication Date: 1/2019

Document Language: English

Document ID (Org No.): 2001369753

pISSN: 2520-0968

DOI: 10.23918/ijsses.v6i2p102

Literary Theory

Open City

Post-Modernism

Authenticity

Issues

Authors:

Daniil Ozernyi

Publisher:

Tishk International University (TIU)

Journal:

International Journal of Social Sciences & Educational Studies Vol.6 Issue 2, pp.102-108

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

1/2019

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2001369753

pISSN:

2520-0968

DOI:

10.23918/ijsses.v6i2p102