MULTILAYERED - MULTIDIMENSIONAL INTERPRETATION AND ANALYSIS OF POETRY: A TRANSDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVE

Abstract

A cursory analysis and review of English literature in the past couple of centuries may reveal that there have existed literary
critics adopting interdisciplinary approaches, trying to expound methodologies defined by multidimensional meta
perspectives, possessing a propensity characterized by an overwhelming enthusiasm and an ever-growing elation for
scrutinizing various ontological layers and dimensions of any given literary texts, chief among them poetic manifestations, but
being faced with inscrutable challenges in identifying themselves with the artistic milieu and conjuncture, manifesting their
innermost feelings with respect to the multifaceted structures of the work at hand. However, being based solely on the
intellectual resources and relying merely on the epistemic constructions within a particular social context might not pave the
way for an adequate understanding and interpretation of these literary texts. It would, therefore, be imperative to expound and
adopt a meta-interpretational, meta-cognitive and meta-intellectual perspective in order to delve into the lower layers of any
given work of art and thus unleash the profoundity and the plurality of meanings in the text in the light of the recent artistic
paradigms adoptable for literary criticism.
Based on such historically attested facts and epistemically experienced testimonies, our presentation revolves mainly around
postulating some brand-new approaches for poetic interpretation with special reference to T.S. Eliot’s The Love Song of
J.Alfred Prufrock and Four Quartets drawing from an intrinsic urge grounded in trans-conjuntural, trans-cognitive and transdisciplinary literary criticisms suitable for the 21st century artistic paradigms