This thesis aims to analyze poems by Emily Dickinson and John Milton
according to Julia Kristeva&rsquo / s theories of poetic language and abjection, and
to see the extent to which these concepts are applicable to two such
different poets and also to see how the poets compare within such analytic
framework. Kristeva adapts a psychoanalytic approach to poststructuralist
theory. Psychoanalytic criticism with its two leading figures, Sigmund
Freud and Jacques Lacan, has been analyzed to see its reflections on
Kristeva&rsquo / s theory. As regards, the semiotic, the symbolic, the abject and the
paragrammatic structure of poetic language are four main concepts which
have been found to be critical tools to be used in the analyses of Dickinson
and Milton&rsquo / s poems. What has been concluded from the analyses in this
thesis is that in both Dickinson and Milton&rsquo / s poems, according to
Kristeva&rsquo / s theory of poetic language, there is the intrusion of the semiotic
into the symbolic which is further supported with the concept of the abject.
Also, the difference between a seventeenth century and a modern poet in
terms of a Kristevan approach has been deduced in this thesis. That is,
Kristeva&rsquo / s theory of paragrammatic structure has proved that in
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Dickinson&rsquo / s poems, each and every word helps to sustain an image.
Contrary to this, in Milton&rsquo / s Comus, which is a work of the seventeenth
century, it has been somewhat difficult to apply Kristeva&rsquo / s theory of
paragrammatic structure.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12608453/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 May 2007 |
| Creators | Sarikaya, Merve |
| Contributors | Sonmez, Margaret |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | M.A. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | To liberate the content for public access |
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