Robert Browning and the Lure of the Violent Lyric Voice: Domestic Violence and the Dramatic Monologue

Gregory, Melissa Valiska

doi:10.1353/vp.2000.0042

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“…He has been examined extensively in previous literature from different perspectives e.g. gender perspective (Ingersoll, 1991), (Maenhout, 2007) and (Haigwood, 1986), literary and dramatic perspective (Sessions, 1947), (Wenger, 1941), (Garratt, 1973) and (Culler, 1975), domestic violence perspective (Culler 1975;Gregory, 2000) and (Salunke, 2014), sympathy and judgement (Scheinberg, 1997), and his necro-poetics (Fox, 2011). Comparative studies have also been conducted on him and other poets, comparison of John Donne"s philosophy and artistic theory with Browning (Duncan, 1953), comparison of Morrison"s poem with Browning"s dramatic monologues (Hodgson, 1992), similarity of musicality between Tennyson and Browning (Plamondon, 2002), similarity between John Betjeman"s "Bristol and Clifton" and Browning"s dramatic monologues with particular reference to My Last Duchess (Gardner, 2006) and poetic similarities and differences between Tennyson and Robert Browning (Prakash, 2017).…”

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Socio-literary Study of Robert Browning and Darwesh Durrani’s Dramatic Monologues: A Comparative Literary Approach

Khan

2020

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Previous literature is laden with research on Browning’s dramatic monologues from various perspectives. This paper will compare Browning’s dramatic monologues with Derwesh Durrani’s poetry from socio-literary perspective. Literary theories of analogy and variation will be used to find out similarities and differences in their poetry. Two poems from each poet have been selected for analysis through close reading technique on the model of theories of variation and analogy. Stratified sampling technique was used for taking the representative sample from the data. The findings reveals that Darwesh’s poetry exhibits most of the dramatic features of Browning’s dramatic monologues, but his poetry is more poetic, while Browning’s poetry is more dramatic; Browning invigorates the past, Darwesh recreates the present. In addition, Browning’s poems deals with domestic issues like gender violence, love and marriage, Darwesh’s poetry deals with social issues and patriotism, and contrary to Browning, he stands for women’s rights and sensibilities. This paper suggests further studies purely from socio-cultural perspective of Darwesh’s dramatic monologues, which will contribute to the existing literature on dramatic monologues.

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