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Burnt Norton의 해체적 읽기
Reading Burnt Norton Deconstructively
박영산 ( Young San Park )
영어영문학21 14권 2호 145-165(21pages)
UCI I410-ECN-0102-2012-740-000988474

T. S. Eliot`s Four Quartets is known as one of representative poems of Modernism. This means it is also regarded as the organic poem that can unify all kinds of thoughts. So it has been a canon and seems to be unable to be opposed by any critic. But the idea of deconstruction opens the door to make us read Eliot`s poems deconstructively. Burnt Norton, the first section of Four Quartets, shows characteristics of deconstruction Of course it cannot be decisively said as a work of Postmodernism Eliot declared himself as traditionalist and Anglo-Catholic. His poems are fundamantally based on tradition and Christianity. So Their themes commonly go toward `Logos`, the centre of all existents. Inspite of that, the process toward Logos deconstructs binaries such as spirit/sense, abstract/illustrative. From this point BN has postmodern factors. `Rose-garden` is known as the idealistic and symbolic space, but I want to think it as deconstructive space which dissolves all binary and opposing things. Binary system has supported Western Plilosophy for a long time and it has been both the dominating and the dominated. Deconstruction dissolves this system. Particularly languge has been sured of having a fixed meaning, but this illusion began to break down. BN has been read as having the fixed meaning, influenced by New Criticism. But it can be read with endless meanings. The text shows slipping, sliding of words. These are deconstruvtive characteristics of words. So Eliot might have been aware of them. BN is also self-referential. Self-referentiality is one of main postmodern characteristics. BN shows the cyclic function of word. Abstract aspect has repressed illustrative one in literature of Modernism. But in BN the former alternates with the latter and even is inverted. By this fact BN has deconstructive factors and this is just the purpose of this paper. It is not the purpose of this paper to identify who `Logos` is, but to make clear the deconstructive process toward just the `Logos`. Anyway reading deconstructively on BN presents the chance to feel the pleasure of reading and make it an open-text and widen the horizon of interpretation.

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