Supervisors info:
Έλλη Φιλοκύπρου. Αναπληρώτρια καθηγήτρια, τμήμα Επικοινωνίας και Μέσων Μαζικής Ενημέρωσης, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών
Summary:
ABSTRACT: The Fourth Dimension (Tetarti diastasi) was composed between 1956-1974. Most of the poems comprising the collection are inspired by ancient Greek myths. In eight out of the seventeen, the speakers are women, while in six out of those, the women are mythical heroines; these six poems consist, therefore, a cohesive unit. This dissertation deals with the monologues: “Persephone”, “Chrysothemis”, “Helen”, “Ismene”, “The Return of Iphigeneia”, and “Phaedra”. What is the motive of the poet in recreating these mythical figures? Do these women function as masks of the poet himself, and, if so, why? What is actually revealed as the speakers open themselves to the persons listening to them (or to the readers)? Woman, erotic and marginalised, throughout myth and history? The poet himself, dealing with issues pertaining to his personal life as well as to events of his time? What does the oppressed subject seek, according to Ritsos? What are the dimensions of her/his desire? This dissertation aims at exploring such questions
Keywords:
fourth dimension, female figure, desire, mythology, antiquity, psychoanalysis
