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2000
Once Below a Time
Wardi, Eynel . Once Below A Time. New York: SUNY, 2000. Print.Abstract

Highly original and theoretically wide-ranging, this book offers new insights into the origins of poetry. Working with much of the significant primary and secondary literature in psychoanalysis, particularly the theories of Julia Kristeva, the book skillfully sketches out a psychoanalytically enhanced theory of poetics through close readings of the works of Dylan Thomas. Through an intense dialogue with pivotal poems, it offers a "subjectivist" theory of poetic language, one that focuses on the interrelation between meaning and subjectivity in the dynamics of the poetic text. In this scheme, the "genesis of the speaking subject" is held to be a reenactment of old and new fantasies of origins, the reality of which is inaccessible to us--buried, as it were, "below time." Among these fantasies, the author also recognizes the psychoanalytic fantasy of origins that guides her own project. 

The Western Theory of Tradition: Terms and Paradigms of the Cultural Sublime
Budick, Sanford . The Western Theory Of Tradition: Terms And Paradigms Of The Cultural Sublime. New Haven: Yale Press, 2000. Print.
Interpretation and Allegory: Antiquity to the Modern Period
Whitman, Jon . Interpretation And Allegory: Antiquity To The Modern Period. Brill, 2000. Print.Abstract

This major investigation of the theory and practice of interpretation is unparalleled in design. Concentrating on interpretive allegory, its interdisciplinary approach simultaneously opens and organizes new perspectives on historic developments - from pagan, Jewish, Christian, and Islamic commentaries to postmodern critiques. Interpretation and Allegory: Antiquity to the Modern Period is the recipient of The Polonsky Foundation 2001 Award for Contributions to Interdisciplinary Study in the Humanities. This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details.