A JULIA KRISTEVAN ANALYSIS OF STEVIE SMITH'S POETRY
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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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13 Temmuz 2016
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16 Ocak 2016
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Yıl 2016 Cilt: 40 Sayı: 1
