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Lexis and the undergraduate : analysing vocabulary needs, proficiencies and problems

Beginning with Plato's expulsion of the poets in the Republic, this dissertation
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looks at the often hostile, yet also symbiotic, relationship between·poetry and
philosophy. Aristotle's 'response' to Plato is regarded as a significant origin of
literary theory. Nietzsche's critique of Western philosophy as being an attempt to
suppress its own metaphoricity, leads to a revaluation of truth and consequently
of the privileging of philosophy over poetry. Post-structuralism sometimes
overemphasizes this constitutive force of metaphoricity, at the expense of
conceptual modes. However, Derrida's notion of philosophy as play retains a
balance between concept and metaphor: there is no attempt to transcendentally
ground philosophy, but neither is it reduced to a merely metaphorical discourse.
Finally, Wittgenstein's notion of meaning as determined by use can help us
distinguish pragmatically between poetry and philosophy by looking at the
contexts in which they function. / Linguistics and Modern Languages / M.A. (Linguistics)

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:unisa/oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/17926
Date01 1900
CreatorsCooper, Patricia Anne
ContributorsHubbard, E. H. (Ernest Hilton), 1947-
Source SetsSouth African National ETD Portal
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeDissertation
Format1 online resources (138 leaves)

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