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The Non‐ocularity of Racine's “Vision”
Author(s) -
Barnett Richard L.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
orbis litterarum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.109
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 1600-0730
pISSN - 0105-7510
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0730.1980.tb00767.x
Subject(s) - context (archaeology) , dialectic , literal (mathematical logic) , linguistics , unification , poetics , antithesis , philosophy , expression (computer science) , exegesis , poetry , interpretation (philosophy) , computer science , literature , epistemology , art , history , archaeology , programming language
Contrary to the reiterations of long‐established critical stance, the Racinian tragic is the prescriptive resultant of a non ‐transparent, polyvalent operation of fusion and depolarization, geared to produce and sustain an idiolect of measured distortion and a dialectic of disorientation . While metaphoricity is a central component of this poetic network, its patterns and sequences, encoded functions as both mechanism of unification and agent of disjunction and primary role as non‐literal “anti‐communicant” can be adequately decoded only within the context of their integral systematization. Thus, commonly‐practiced modes of restrictive metaphorical breakdown/interpretation almost necessarily engender faulty exegesis and textual disfiguration. As reaffirmation and exemplum of the foregoing premises, the present study proposes an examination of the manipulatory, quasisemiotic status of sensorial/non‐sensorial phenomena in Racine's tragedies, with due emphasis accorded to the delicate integration of this “sphere” of expression into the larger plexus of Racinian poetics.