Reading Keats’s Poetry: Alternative Subject Positions and Subject-Object Relations

Author:   Merve Günday
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:  

9781032580326


Pages:   208
Publication Date:   04 July 2024
Format:   Hardback
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Reading Keats’s Poetry: Alternative Subject Positions and Subject-Object Relations


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This book claims that Keats’s poetry is a reaction against the discourse of modernity which traumatized the human subject by creating a divide between human and nature, subject and object. It argues that by transcending this divide and acknowledging the agency of both subject and object, Keats makes an ideological statement and offers a new site of existence or relationality to readers. This site also implies a response to the accusations that the Romantics were not interested in the realities of their time. What Keats does is to give an aestheticized response to the hardcore facts of his time. Departing from previous studies due to its emphasis on subjectivity and relationality, the book discusses Keats with regard to post/non-anthropocentric, alternative subject positions and subject-object relations in his “Ode to a Nightingale,” “In drear nighted December,” “Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil,” “Lamia,” “La Belle Dame sans Mercy,” and “Ode on a Grecian Urn.” Drawing on Lacanian and Braidottian epistemologies in its discussion of the intricacy between the imaginary and the symbolic, the irruption of the psychotic into the symbolic, and the agency of the object on the subject in Keats’s poetry, the book suggests that the inner dynamics of both the subject and the object acquire agency, which shatters Oneness and totality assumed in the Cartesian self.

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Author:   Merve Günday
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781032580326


ISBN 10:   1032580321
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   04 July 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Theoretical Background 2. Unchaining Desire in “Ode to a Nightingale” and “In Drear Nighted December” 3. Crossing Borders with the Resurfacing of the Psychotic Material in “Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil,” “Lamia,” and “La Belle Dame Sans Mercy” 4. Becoming Topological in “Ode to a Grecian Urn” Conclusion Index

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Merve Günday completed her PhD in English Literature at Middle East Technical University (2022). Her research interests include Romantic poetry, Modernist drama, and Theory with a special focus on Lacanian psychoanalysis, Posthumanism, and Material Ecocriticism.

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