TY - JOUR
T1 - From the Margin a Silent Tick
T2 - On the traces of performative judgment in literary works
AU - Magee, Paul
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021/10
Y1 - 2021/10
N2 - Ezra Pound struck out lines in T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land manuscript that referred to the writing of bad poetry. His mentee Ernest Hemingway deleted a description of poor novel writing from The Sun Also Rises. What intrigues me is the possibility that these passages were cut as anxious self-reflections. I argue that self-critical voices accompany literary composition, sometimes make their way into drafts, and in happier cases are dropped prior to publication. Naomi Cumming's work in the philosophy of performative consciousness is central to this demonstration, which suggests that anxiety and risk are pivotal to the production of literature.
AB - Ezra Pound struck out lines in T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land manuscript that referred to the writing of bad poetry. His mentee Ernest Hemingway deleted a description of poor novel writing from The Sun Also Rises. What intrigues me is the possibility that these passages were cut as anxious self-reflections. I argue that self-critical voices accompany literary composition, sometimes make their way into drafts, and in happier cases are dropped prior to publication. Naomi Cumming's work in the philosophy of performative consciousness is central to this demonstration, which suggests that anxiety and risk are pivotal to the production of literature.
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U2 - 10.1353/phl.2021.0033
DO - 10.1353/phl.2021.0033
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85124942660
SN - 0190-0013
VL - 45
SP - 329
EP - 347
JO - Philosophy and Literature
JF - Philosophy and Literature
IS - 2
ER -