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Gray, Robert William.

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Melancholic poetics: The vagaries and vicissitudes of identity in three Canadian poetic novels and various psychoanalytical works (Kristjana Gunnar, Audrey Thomas, Anne Carson, Jacques Lacan).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Melancholic poetics: The vagaries and vicissitudes of identity in three Canadian poetic novels and various psychoanalytical works (Kristjana Gunnar, Audrey Thomas, Anne Carson, Jacques Lacan)./
Author:	Gray, Robert William.
Description:	328 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-07, Section: A, page: 2496.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-07A.
Subject:	Literature, Canadian (English). -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=NQ82105
ISBN:	0612821056

Melancholic poetics: The vagaries and vicissitudes of identity in three Canadian poetic novels and various psychoanalytical works (Kristjana Gunnar, Audrey Thomas, Anne Carson, Jacques Lacan).
Gray, Robert William.

Melancholic poetics: The vagaries and vicissitudes of identity in three Canadian poetic novels and various psychoanalytical works (Kristjana Gunnar, Audrey Thomas, Anne Carson, Jacques Lacan). - 328 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-07, Section: A, page: 2496.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alberta (Canada), 2003.

In our current cultural climate, melancholia is most likely to be medicated, considered unproductive and without purpose. Yet, in poetic novels such as Kristjana Gunnars's Substance of Forgetting, Audrey Thomas's Blown Figures, and Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red, it is essential to the subjects' ontological quest to express themselves and mediate the fraught border between their inner realities and the vagaries of the external world. For these three novelists, a melancholic perspective is a site of affirmation and resistance against dominant discourses that constrain and repress the subject's gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and history.

ISBN: 0612821056Subjects--Topical Terms:

1022372
Literature, Canadian (English).

Melancholic poetics: The vagaries and vicissitudes of identity in three Canadian poetic novels and various psychoanalytical works (Kristjana Gunnar, Audrey Thomas, Anne Carson, Jacques Lacan).
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520 $a In search of solitude, in search of witness, in the quest to speak the unspeakable and silenced aspects of themselves, the subjects of these three poetic novels are overwhelmed by affect. The melancholic perspective in all its ambivalence and passion permits the subject to "unlatch" herself from social and cultural hegemonic discourses, to find herself in the margins.
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