The Application of an Ontological Perspective to the Literary Interpretation of Works Drawn from Several Periods.
- Author / Editor
- Somerville, Elizabeth S.
The Application of an Ontological Perspective to the Literary Interpretation of Works Drawn from Several Periods.
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 28.08 (1968): 3158-59A.
- Description
- Illustrates how literary works "can be read existentially from the point of view of the reader's ontological concern with them," discussing James Joyce's "Clay," William Blake's "The Little Black Boy," and WBPT. Reads WBT as a "reflection of the meaning of Alice's own experience in marriage" and "her transcendence of her Martian-Venerian nature."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale