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Writing Life : Suffering as a Poetic Strategy of Emily Dickinson.
The analysis of a selection of Emily Dickinson's texts confirms the notion that suffering occupies the principal position in the poet's work. Her poetry constitutes an example of a painful literary quest for subjectivity as well as an act of self-transcendence, which means that through her...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Polaco |
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Kraków :
Jagiellonian University Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1. The Dualistic Nature of Suffering; Suffering as a dispiriting factor; Lack of love; Lack of maternal love; Lack of romantic love; Lack of God; Lack of health; The Empowering side of suffering; Suffering as a stimulus to greater self-understandingand creativity; Adopting an unorthodox feminine role; Poetry as a sublimation of rage; New spirituality; Conclusion: Emotional disturbance as a prerequisiteof a poetic explosion; Chapter 2. Kristeva's Main Tenets; Kristeva's concept of abjection and Emily Dickinson's poetry.
- Semiotic features in Emily Dickinson's poetic language"Unorderable cognitive chaos"; Ambiguity caused by compression and elision; Unorthodox treatment of grammar; Absurd phrases; Slow delivery; Repetition and obsessive litanies; Interruption in speech fl ow; The pressure for silence; Mood swings
- self belittling to self-confi dence; Strategies for representing suffering; Minimalism as a technique for representing despair; Composition as a technique to present loneliness; Sarcasm and irony as a tool to illustrate defi ance; Realism as a technique of humanising pain.
- Conclusion: The functions of poetic techniquesin Emily Dickinson's poemsConclusion; Summary; Streszczenie; Works Cited.