Unit:
Κατεύθυνση Πολιτισμικές και Κινηματογραφικές ΣπουδέςLibrary of the Faculties of Political Science and Public Administration, Communication and Mass Media Studies, Turkish and Modern Asian Studies, Sociology
Author:
Kalograiaki Charalampia
Supervisors info:
Έλλη Φιλοκύπρου, Καθηγήτρια, Τμήμα Επικοινωνίας και Μέσων Μαζικής Ενημέρωσης, ΕΚΠΑ.
Original Title:
Το Εφιαλτικό Οικείο και η Θαλπωρή της Δυστυχίας στην Ποίηση του Τάσου Λειβαδίτη: το Μοτίβο του Σπιτιού στις Συλλογές Νυχτερινός Επισκέπτης (1972) και Ο Τυφλός με τον Λύχνο (1983)
Translated title:
The Uncanny and the Embrace of Sorrow in Leivaditi's Poetry: the Motif of the House in his Poetry Collections Νυχτερινός Επισκέπτης [Night Visitor] (1972) and Ο Τυφλός με τον Λύχνο [The Blind Man with the Lamp] (1983)
Summary:
The present study examines the concept of the uncanny and the embrace of sorrow in Leivaditi’s poetry, through the motif of the house, as it is presented in his poetry collections Νυχτερινός Επισκέπτης [Night Visitor] (1972) and Ο Τυφλός με τον Λύχνο [The Blind Man with the Lamp] (1983). Although the forementioned motif can be traced throughout his entire poetics, it is in these two collections that it is used both extensively and intensely, coinciding with the poet’s overt turn towards introspectiveness and existentialism. The major tools used in the study of the motif of the house are the theories of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Gaston Bachelard and Marc Augé. The transformation of the house into a threatening protagonist is studied through the lens of Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology, which discusses the interaction between humans and places, bringing into the foreground the rupture between the narrator and the house. Meanwhile, the importance of this rupture is magnified, when studied in the light of Bachelard’s poetics of space. By placing the house at the centre of each human’s personal universe, this rupture entails the narrator’s detachment from the space and time surrounding him, and the transformation of the house and the present into what Augé would call a non-place. On the opposite end of the spectrum, as a consequence of the narrator’s deliberate resort to sorrow, sorrow turns into a place and a home, breathing meaning to his life by pushing him towards the decision to save humanity through poetry.
Main subject category:
Social, Political and Economic sciences
Other subject categories:
Language – Literature
Keywords:
Tasos Leivaditis, poetry, motif of the house, phenomenology, the poetics of space, non place, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Gaston Bachelard, Marc Augé
