International Journal of Media Culture and Literature

Abstract

This paper analyzes Body Clock: Poems in the perspective of Julia Kristeva’s Desire in Language A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art and. It explicitly sheds light on Eleni Sikelianos’s poems in Body Clock with two different theorists such as Kristeva and Egan. Eleni Sikelianos’ (1965- ) both visual and verbal narrative style attribute an authentic outlook for readers, and they see the power of her performative style. The process of giving birth is narrated so creatively that when people read her poems, they will understand how life is a meaningful thing. The study will start with the life of Eleni Sikelianos, who is the author of Body Clock which reveals the idea of birth, womanhood, imaginative mind, and so on. Secondly, Body Clock is explained with its main concepts such as time, biology, motherhood including the growth of body and birth, and her drawings. The third part of the study will examine the poems of Body Clock from the perspective of Julia Kristeva’s Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art. This analysis will concern four theoretical backgrounds: “the speaking/split subject,” “semiotic chora & symbolic device,” “maternal body/ drive,” and “poetic language/carnivalesque.” In the fourth section of the paper, Body Clock is analyzed in terms of three concepts such as the mirror conception, body status and language in control of meaning in Mirror Talk: Genres of Crisis in Contemporary Autobiography written by Susanna Egan.