Threshold Poetics: Milton and IntersubjectivityUniversity of Delaware Press, 2003 - 259 страници 'Threshold Poetics: Milton and Intersubjectivity' is a study of the challenge intersubjective experience poses to doctrinal formulations of difference. Focusing on 'Paradise Lost' and 'Samson Agonistes' and using feminist and relational psychoanalytic theory, the project examines representations of looking, working, eating, conversing, and touching, to argue that encounters between selves in 'threshold space' dismantle the binary oppositions that support categorical thinking. A key term throughout the study is recognition, defined as the capacity to tolerate both sameness and difference between separate selves. Recognition of likeness-in-difference thus undermines the exclusionary logic of patriarchal and poitical hierarchies. Both Eve and Dalila demonstrate the ability to respect the borders of the other while seeking out similarity, but where 'Paradise Lost' depicts the eventual achievements of intersubjective understanding between Adam and Eve after the fall, 'Samson Agonistes' records its failure when Samson, maintaining the boundaries of difference, refuses Dalila's effort to make contact. |
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... figure the body as a dragging weight on the soul , women as other to men , the gaze as a form of violence , or even the natural world as a subordinated realm in need of human re- straint . I will contend in this study that Milton's ...
... figure the body as a dragging weight on the soul , women as other to men , the gaze as a form of violence , or even the natural world as a subordinated realm in need of human re- straint . I will contend in this study that Milton's ...
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... figures such as Eve and Dalila embody . Benjamin's model of intersubjective recognition replaces the an- tagonisms of classic Freudian theory with the liminal dynamics of the threshold , and has its antecedents in the object relations ...
... figures such as Eve and Dalila embody . Benjamin's model of intersubjective recognition replaces the an- tagonisms of classic Freudian theory with the liminal dynamics of the threshold , and has its antecedents in the object relations ...
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... figure is an iso- late self construed in terms of victory over ( and also sublimation of ) the primordial " engulfing mother , " the " precursor " of the superego . Thus when Kerrigan writes that " the knowledge of a separate self is ...
... figure is an iso- late self construed in terms of victory over ( and also sublimation of ) the primordial " engulfing mother , " the " precursor " of the superego . Thus when Kerrigan writes that " the knowledge of a separate self is ...
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... figure to a failure of recognition . But the poem presents Dalila — she whose own multiply different corporeal- ity serves to link , rather than separate her from Samson — as unex- pectedly capable of breaking through the boundaries of ...
... figure to a failure of recognition . But the poem presents Dalila — she whose own multiply different corporeal- ity serves to link , rather than separate her from Samson — as unex- pectedly capable of breaking through the boundaries of ...
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... figure to him . Like Eve , " he did not know what he was looking at . " And Narcissus , too , is " interpreted " by a narrative voice who reprimands his foolishness in language obviously similar to that of the invisible voice in ...
... figure to him . Like Eve , " he did not know what he was looking at . " And Narcissus , too , is " interpreted " by a narrative voice who reprimands his foolishness in language obviously similar to that of the invisible voice in ...
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Labor Pains Creation and Work in the Garden | 68 |
No ingrateful food Eating as Interconnection | 106 |
Getting the Last Word The Verbal Touching of Talk | 139 |
Dalilas Touch Disability and Recognition in Samson Agonistes | 175 |
Epilogue | 208 |
Notes | 213 |
241 | |
253 | |
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