Staging America, Staging the Self; Figurations of Loss in John Berryman's Dream Songs

ISBN-13: 9783631863350 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 158 str.

Agnieszka Pantuchowicz; Anna Warso

Opis

This study focuses on theatricality and melancholia in John Berryman's The Dream Songs, and proposes to view them as inherent in the American cultural experience. It discusses Berryman's work in the context of a larger debate on the significance of loss in the process of subject formation and its relation to language.

Spis treści

main themes: the relationship of loss and language, melancholia, theatricality and subject formation in John Berryman's The Dream Songs

O autorze

Anna Warso is Assistant Professor at the Department of English, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw, Poland. Her research interests concern 20th-century American poetry, literary correspondence, and translation.