Reading Keats's Poetry

Alternative Subject Positions and Subject-Object Relations
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-58032-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 214 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 471 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Romanticism

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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Günday, Merve

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.