1st Edition
Reading Keats’s Poetry Alternative Subject Positions and Subject-Object Relations
By Merve Günday
Copyright 2024
214 Pages
by
Routledge
214 Pages
by
Routledge
214 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
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.
