In the skin of another : Anne Michaels', Sujata Bhatt's and Adrienne Rich's dramatic monologues as embodiments of painter Paula Modersohn-Becker

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dc.contributor.advisor Dowling, Gregory it_IT
dc.contributor.author Pavani, Monica <1968> it_IT
dc.date.accessioned 2012-04-13T11:09:10Z it_IT
dc.date.accessioned 2012-07-30T16:05:16Z
dc.date.available 2012-04-13T11:09:10Z it_IT
dc.date.available 2012-07-30T16:05:16Z
dc.date.issued 2012-03-30 it_IT
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10579/1159 it_IT
dc.description.abstract This research aims at exploring the reasons for a multiple fascination: why does German painter Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907) after her death haunt Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) as a ghost that can find no peace in the hereafter? and, what is more, why does her experience as a woman artist go on haunting three women poets of the present time – Canadian Anne Michaels (1958), Indian Sujata Bhatt (1956) and American Adrienne Rich (1929) – who have written dramatic monologues giving voice to her? The reasons for an obsession cannot be grasped in rational terms. The three poets let Becker speak in the first person so as to explore her life devoted to painting but constantly undermined by a sense of failure. Through the use of different devices but urged by a similar need, their poetry courts a form of ‘embodiment,’ aimed at finding a new way of seeing and of giving voice to Paula’s deepest yearnings at a time when to be a woman and an artist represented an inner conflict far from easy to resolve. it_IT
dc.description.abstract Questa ricerca intende indagare le ragioni di una fascinazione multipla: perché la pittrice tedesca Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907) dopo la sua morte perseguita Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) come un fantasma che non trova pace nell’aldilà? E ancora, perché la sua esperienza di artista continua a perseguitare tre poetesse contemporanee – la canadese Anne Michaels (1958), l’indiana Sujata Bhatt (1956) e l’americana Adrienne Rich (1929) – che hanno scritto dei monologhi drammatici per darle voce? Le ragioni di un’ossessione non si possono afferrare razionalmente. Le tre poetesse fanno parlare la Becker in prima persona per esplorare la sua vita dedicata alla pittura ma continuamente minata da un senso di fallimento. Con l’utilizzo di diverse strategie ma mossa da simile urgenza, la loro poesia persegue una forma di ‘incarnazione’, nel tentativo di trovare un nuovo modo di vedere e di dare voce ai desideri più profondi di Paula, in un’epoca in cui essere donna e artista rappresentava un conflitto interiore di non facile soluzione. it_IT
dc.format.medium Tesi cartacea it_IT
dc.language.iso en it_IT
dc.publisher Università Ca' Foscari Venezia it_IT
dc.rights © Monica Pavani, 2012 it_IT
dc.subject Dramatic monologue it_IT
dc.subject Painting it_IT
dc.subject Embodiment it_IT
dc.subject Poesia contemporanea e pittura it_IT
dc.title In the skin of another : Anne Michaels', Sujata Bhatt's and Adrienne Rich's dramatic monologues as embodiments of painter Paula Modersohn-Becker it_IT
dc.type Doctoral Thesis it_IT
dc.degree.name Lingue, culture e società it_IT
dc.degree.level Dottorato di ricerca it_IT
dc.degree.grantor Scuola di dottorato in Lingue, culture e società it_IT
dc.description.academicyear 2010/2011 it_IT
dc.description.cycle 24 it_IT
dc.degree.coordinator Villari, Enrica it_IT
dc.location.shelfmark D001089 it_IT
dc.location Venezia, Archivio Università Ca' Foscari, Tesi Dottorato it_IT
dc.rights.accessrights openAccess it_IT
dc.thesis.matricno 955644 it_IT
dc.format.pagenumber 361 p. : ill. it_IT
dc.subject.miur L-LIN/11 LINGUE E LETTERATURE ANGLO-AMERICANE it_IT
dc.description.tableofcontent Contents Acknowledgements 4 PROLOGUE A Room of Mirrors 6 CHAPTER ONE The Novel(s) Behind the Poems 21 CHAPTER TWO Still Life Translated Into Poems: Embodying Paula Modersohn-Becker 151 CHAPTER THREE Cracks in the Mask: the Dramatic Monologue as a Looking Glass 295 EPILOGUE The Dream of Translatability: Translation as a Clear Glass 321 Bibliography 355 it_IT
dc.identifier.bibliographiccitation Pavani, Monica. "In the skin of another : Anne Michaels', Sujata Bhatt's and Adrienne Rich's dramatic monologues as embodiments of painter Paula Modersohn-Becker", Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, tesi di dottorato, 24. ciclo, 2012 it_IT


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