The discourse of light in Allan Popa's Kundi akala: A deconstructive trope on the history of the centrality of light and the enlightenment

Date of Publication

2007

Document Type

Bachelor's Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts in Literature

College

College of Liberal Arts

Department/Unit

Literature

Thesis Adviser

David Jonathan Bayot

Defense Panel Member



Abstract/Summary

This thesis analyzes five poems of Alla Popa, namely Liwanag Ayon kay Bonnard, Liwanag Ayon kay Monet Liwanag Ayon kay Hopper Liwanag Ayon kay de Chirico, and Liwanag Ayon kay Vermeer. These poems are a series taken from the book collection Kundi Akala. These will be discussed for their individual and overall discourse on the trope of light through the Deconstruction discourse of Jacques Derrida. In particular, this thesis wishes to analyze how and if the poem are able to turn the old trope of light and it's centrality in the western metaphysics of presence as exemplified in enlightenment thinking.

According to Derrida these metaphysics of presence or origin assumes a primary self-validating metaphysical ground of presence by fixing this to an obscured or self blind metaphor. These poems are selected begin by latching on to light as trope and highlighting the deconstructive themes of indeterminacy implicit within.

The study concludes that by inhabiting the ambiguities, tensions, and the paradoxes in the situation of the painters, Allan Popa is able to examine the aporias that exist, and most importantly, are uncovered and expressed by the projects of these painters.

Abstract Format

html

Language

English

Format

Print

Accession Number

TU14598

Shelf Location

Archives, The Learning Commons, 12F, Henry Sy Sr. Hall

Physical Description

73 leaves ; 28 cm.

Keywords

Enlightenment; Poems -- Collections; Poets; Filipino

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