Supervisors info:
Πέγκυ Καρπούζου, Επίκουρη Καθηγήτρια Θεωρίας Λογοτεχνίας, Τμήμα Φιλολογίας, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών (ΕΚΠΑ)
Άννα Τζούμα, Ομότιμη Καθηγήτρια Θεωρίας Λογοτεχνίας, Τμήμα Φιλολογίας, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών (ΕΚΠΑ)
Δημήτρης Αγγελάτος, Καθηγητής Νεοελληνικής Φιλολογίας και Θεωρίας της Λογοτεχνίας, Τμήμα Φιλολογίας, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών (ΕΚΠΑ)
Summary:
At this master’s thesis, we investigate the total, especially the poetical, work, of Matsi (C)hatzilazarou and Manto Aravantinou, through the scope of touch and tactility, as these two axons surpass the simple thematization, or the common empiricist perceptions about these issues; insisting therefore on the ontological perspective, particularly to this metaphysical domain, which is known as Intra-Ontology. Moreover, this study of touch as well tactility, is here distinct from the simple phenomenological, descriptive approaches, which are very frequent to that issue, while our study gains further gnoseological and aesthetical dimensions. As we recognize them, at the very least, in the poetic idiom of (C)hatzilazarou and Aravantinou. Nevertheless, our main purpose isn’t just to project our philosophical tendencies to their total work as well as in their poetics. On the contrary, we track these philosophical aspects in their poetry and we examine them in a historical but also theoretical frame, through touch and tactility. Because we support that these two axons, comprise the most appropriate methodological tools, so as to get into more depth in all these philosophical issues, e.g. vid. the notion of (re-)présentation in accordance with the touch and tactility; since we combine the textual strata and data, in our master’s thesis, with the necessary hermeneutic tools. Hence the aim of our master’s thesis, is to investigate single partial themes, such as that of Ontology, in relation to Gnoseology and Aesthetics, though touch and tactility, evading so the common-viewed and superficial enough, perceptions, about the sensual issues, the syn(a)esthesia, the multi-sensory re-actions, and especially about the touch and tactile/haptic modalities. Consequently, through that close reading and the necessary theoretical reframing of our textual data, we aim to construct a specific poetical theory about tactility, among other theoretical approaches, which however consist the object of future research and relative case studies. So, at the moment, we just stay here, at that departure point, for future research, though profoundly correlated to these perceptions about touch and tactility, in (C)hatzilazarou’s and Aravantinou’s poetry.
Keywords:
Modern Greek Philology/Literature, Matsi (C)hatzilazarou, Manto Aravantinou, Modern Greek Poetry, Touch, Tactility, Tactile/Haptic modalities/tropisms, Modality, Phenomenology, Ontology, Intra-Ontology, Gnoseology, Aesthetics, (Re-)présentation
