Abstract
This paper aims to analyze the British poet Stevie Smith’s poetry by using Kristevan psychoanalytic theory. Smith, who wrote between the 1930s and the 1970s, was underrated throughout most of her career. Julia Kristeva’s work on the semiotic and the symbolic can explain why Smith’s poetry was underestimated in the mid-twentieth century British poetry. Smith’s language, poetic performances and themes come into conflict with the masculine symbolic discourse destroying the hierarchal boundaries between the semiotic and the symbolic. In Kristevan terms, the semiotic rebels against the oppression of the symbolic in her poetry. As a result, the masculine symbolic discourse fails to define her writing in the symbolic order and thus ends up labeling it simple and superficial.
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Abstract
Bu makale İngiliz şair Stevie Smith’in şiirlerini Julia Kristeva’nın psikanalitik kuramını kullanarak incelemeyi amaçlamaktadır. Şiirlerini 1930’lu ve 1970’li yıllar arasında yazan Smith, yazı kariyeri boyunca hafife alınmıştır. Julia Kristeva’nın semiyotik ve sembolik üzerine çalışmaları, Smith’in şiirinin yirminci yüzyıl ortası İngiliz şiirinde neden küçümsendiğini açıklayabilir. Smith’in dili, şiir performansları ve kullandığı temalar maskülen sembolik söylemle çelişkiye düşmekte ve böylece semiyotik ile sembolik arasındaki hiyerarşik sınırları yıkmaktadır. Kristeva’nın tabiriyle, Smith’in şiirlerinde semiyotik semboliğin baskısına karşı koymaktadır. Sonuç olarak, maskülen sembolik söylem Smith’in eserlerini sembolik düzende tanımlayamadığı için basit ve yüzeysel olarak etiketlemektedir
References
- ABRAMS, M.H. (1999). A Glossary of Literary Terms. Seventh Edition. Massachusetts: Heinle&Heinle.
- ANDERSON, L. (2007). Gender, Feminism and Poetry. in Neil Corcoran (Ed.), The Cambridge 87). Cambridge: Cambridge UP.
- BAUMERT, R. (2007). Fear, Melancholy, and Loss in the Poetry of Stevie Smith. in Konstanze The Aestheticization of the Unaesthetic in Contemporary Literature and Culture (pp. 197-221). New York: Rodopi .
- CIXOUS, H. (1997). The Laugh of the Medusa. in Robyn R. Warhol and Diane Price Herndl (Eds.), (pp.347-63). New Brunswick
- New Jersey: Rutgers UP.
- DERRIDA, J. (1993). Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences. in Joseph Reader (pp.223-43). Albany: State U of
- Natoli and Linda Hutcheon (Eds.), A Postmodern New York P.
- DOWSON, J., Entwistle, A. (2005). A History of Twentieth-Century British Women’s Poetry. Cambridge: Cambridge UP.
- KRISTEVA, J. (1982). Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection. Leon S. Roudiez (Trans.). New York: Columbia UP.
- KRISTEVA, J. (1984). The Revolution in Poetic Language. (Margaret Waller, Trans.). New York: Columbia UP.
- MANSFIELD, N. (2000). Subjectivity: Theories of the Self from Freud to Haraway. New York: NYU.
- MCAFEE, N. (2004). Julia Kristeva. New York: Routledge.
- RICKS, C. (1995). The Force of Poetry. Oxford: Oxford UP.
- SEVERIN, L. (2003). ‘Disinvolve, Dissociate’: Stevie Smith and the Politics of Passive Experiment. Revision and British Writing of the 1930’s (pp.133-47). Cambridge: Blackwell.
- SMITH, S. (1988). New Selected Poems of Stevie Smith. New York: New Directions.
- SMITH, S. (2002a). Selected Poems. James MacGibbon (Ed.). London: Penguin.
- SMITH, S. (2002b). Collected Poems. James MacGibbon (Ed.). New York: New Directions.
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| Publication Date | July 13, 2016 |
| Published in Issue | Year 2016Volume: 40 Issue: 1 |
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