Psychoanalytic Poetics

Sastri, Reena

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“…The analytic look serves to achieve "lyric intensity" by encounters with the elemental as rendered by the mythological and biblical traditions. 3 It is at this layer that, as I am going to claim, Glück's principal theme and main poetic precursor emerge. Here, the psychoanalytic modulation of the personal yields not a "confession" -a report of guilt coming from a badly composed relations with the closest of kin -but a prolonged confrontation with the shaping, ordering, and impinging forces always threatening to smother the life of the psychological subject.…”

Section: Introduction: Louise Glück As a Psycho-theological Post-conf...mentioning

confidence: 92%

“…36 Reena Sastri saw in the collection an attempt to rewrite Plath's poem "Elm" and Eliot's The Waste Land. 37 Piotr Zazula has turned our attention to the theology behind these literary continuations and has argued for the strong Gnostic element, in which the discussions with the whimsical creator, clearly a demiurgical entity, bespeak the Gnostic motif of creation being a deeply flawed catastrophic event marked with the "perennial struggle with matter." 38 Most importantly, however, the volume represents at least a glimmer of the antithetical position toward the dominant nomological order of creation.…”

Section: The Middle Ground -Recuperating From the Thanatic Dominancementioning

confidence: 99%

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Exodus or Exile: The Trope of "more life" in Louise Glück’s Poetry

Bartczak¹

2022

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Exodus or Exile: The Trope of "more life" in Louise Glück’s Poetry What is life in poetry? One concept that is trying to answer this questions is a psycho-theological, messianic and vitalist category of “more life,” elaborated by the Polish scholar Agata Bielik-Robson on the basis of Harold Bloom’s theory of poetic incarnation. Bloom’s writings constitute a link between the Jewish messianic vitalism and the vitalist line of American poetry, in which I place Glück. An antithetical position of subjectivityagainst the orders of experience governed by law and necessity (nature and death), “more life” positions the poetic psyche in a precarious position as an excessive entity in-betweenthem. The article examines a trajectory of the positions that Glück’s poetic subjects takein relation to those orders in the context of the messianic promise of “more life.”

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Section: Introduction: Louise Glück As a Psycho-theological Post-conf...mentioning

confidence: 92%

Section: The Middle Ground -Recuperating From the Thanatic Dominancementioning

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Exodus or Exile: The Trope of "more life" in Louise Glück’s Poetry

Bartczak¹

2022

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The Paradigm of the Void: Louise Glück’s Post-Confessional Deadlock

Bartczak¹

2021

Polish Journal for American Studies

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Awarded the Nobel Prize in literature, Louise Glück emerges as one of the major and most important American poets of the late 20th and early 21st century. What does this centrality tell us about the trajectory that the American poetry has traced since modernism? I attempt to offer a critical evaluation of Glück’s post-confessional stylistic, developed between the debut Firstborn (1968) and Averno (2006), by setting it in contexts that are historical and, later in the paper, psycho-theological. First, I treat her formula as a double response – to the modernist legacy of T. S. Eliot and to the challenges of postmodernity. Faithful to Eliot’s urge to transcend the biographical by connecting it with the transcendental, Glück resists the skeptical thesis of the demise of grand narratives, and writes in defiance of the postmodernist poetics of such poets as John Ashbery. Not undermining the biographical foundation of the lyric – the way Ashbery has done in his linguistic excess – she strives to make it paradigmatic. However, in this heroic search for a paradigm, Glück proposes a deeply ambiguous modification of Eliot that I characterize in psycho-theological terms. Following Agata Bielik-Robson’s research, I characterize Glück’s metaphysics as a form of Thanatic Lacanian Gnosticism. At this level we confront the costs of Glück’s post-confessionalism: a serious impairment of all those aspects of the self that make it an embodied and gendered human being.

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Psychoanalytic Poetics

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Exodus or Exile: The Trope of "more life" in Louise Glück’s Poetry

Exodus or Exile: The Trope of "more life" in Louise Glück’s Poetry

The Paradigm of the Void: Louise Glück’s Post-Confessional Deadlock

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