Offers a psychoanalytically enhanced theory of poetics through close readings of Dylan Thomas and Julia Kristeva.
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.
| ISBN: | 9780791445600 |
| Publication date: | 11th May 2000 |
| Author: | Eynel Wardi |
| Publisher: | SUNY Press an imprint of State University of New York Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 240 pages |
| Series: | SUNY Series in Psychoanalysis and Culture |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: poetry and poets Literature: history and criticism |
Offers a psychoanalytically enhanced theory of poetics through close readings of Dylan Thomas and Julia Kristeva.
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.
Once Below a Time features in the following genres: Literary studies: poetry and poets, Literature: history and criticism
Once Below a Time is available in Paperback, Hardback
Once Below a Time was written by Eynel Wardi and published by SUNY Press an imprint of State University of New York Press
Once Below a Time has 240 pages
Yes it is part of SUNY Series in Psychoanalysis and Culture series