Once below a time : Dylan Thomas, Julia Kristeva, and other speaking subjects
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Once below a time : Dylan Thomas, Julia Kristeva, and other speaking subjects
（SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture）
State University of New York Press, 2000
- : hc
- : pbk
Available at 10 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
1. The Genesis of the Speaking Subject: Fantasies of Origins and their Realization in the Poetic Text
2. Poem on his Birthday
3. Incarnate Devil in the Garden of Eden
The Possibility of the Real
"Incarnate Devil"
4. Under the Sign of Loss, a Recuperation
The Double Determination of Repetition
The Princedom of the Apple Towns
5. The Lover, the Poet, and the Lunatic
Oedipus and the Problem of Boundaries
"A Prospect of the Sea"
"The Mouse and the Woman"
Conclusion: A Confession of the Speaking Subject (or Who Is Afraid of Dylan Thomas?)
Notes
Works Cited
Index
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