T. S. 엘리엇 시학의 베르그송 다시 읽기 = A Rereading of Bergson in T. S. Eliot`s Poetics

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

T. S. Eliot`s poetry and criticism reflect many literary, religious, and philosophical influences. Several epistemological frames have been found in his literary world, which have made it possible for Eliot`s readers to consider some different philosophers` impacts on Eliot. Among others, two philosophers, Bergson and Bradley, have occupied the most important places in our reading of philosophical influences in Eliot`s poetry and criticism. Until 1964 when Eliot`s doctoral dissertation was first published, Bergson had dominated the reader`s approach to Eliot`s epistemological frames. But, since 1964, Bradley began to replace Bergson`s position in Eliotic studies. As Donald J. Childs points out. over one hundred books and essays on Bradlian impacts on Eliot`s poetics have appeared since then, while there has been a great decline in our study of Bergsonian influences in Eliot`s poetics. Exceptionally two scholars, Paul Douglass and Mary Ann GiITies, paid attention to the whole of Eliot`s texts, focusing on the revelation of Begsonian impacts on Eliot`s literary world. It is noteworthy that Bergsonian epistemology does not completely exclude Bradleian epistemology, There are two epistemological frames in Bergson`s philosophy : monism and dualism, whereas Bradley`s philosophy reflects more consistently monistic epistemology. The monistic elements in Begson`s philosophy show the same epistemologieal approach to our experience as those of Bradley. In this point, Eliot`s rejection of Bergsonian philosophy does not seem to result in his entire dismissal of Bergsonian epistemology, but in a selective choice toward Bradleian philosophy, which, in turn, does not amount to an uncritical acceptance of Bradley. Eliot`s major poems and critical essays prove that Eliot`s poetic ideal was the representation of monistic/unified experience in his poetic world.

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