Unit:
Κατεύθυνση Νεοελληνική ΦιλολογίαLibrary of the School of Philosophy
Author:
Sotiropoulou Efthymia
Supervisors info:
Καθηγητής Δημήτρης Αγγελάτος, Τμήμα Φιλολογίας, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών
Επίκουρη Καθηγήτρια Πέγκυ Καρπούζου, Τμήμα Φιλολογίας, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών
Καθηγητής Ευριπίδης Γαραντούδης, Τμήμα Φιλολογίας, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών
Original Title:
Το σώμα ως έκφραση στην ποίηση της Μάτσης Χατζηλαζάρου: οι δεσπόζουσες της μορφής και της κίνησης και οι συναρτήσεις τους με το ένσαρκο υποκείμενο
Translated title:
The body as expression in the poetry of Matsie Hadjilazarou: the dominants of form and movement and their implications with the embodied subject
Summary:
The subject matter of this master's thesis is the study of the ways that the human body is (re)presented in the poems of Matsie Hadjilazarou. According to our approach, corporeality becomes constantly involved with the internal processes of the human being, both indicating the bodily material as an expressive horizon and revealing the Being as an indivisible entity. In order to point out the above, we worked with theoretical tools drawn from the field of phenomenology, like the concept of the embodied subject, which is crucial to our case. The structure of the thesis is defined by the distinction between two (re)presentative dominants, that of the form and that of the movement, which intersect at the procedure of procuring a depth of ontological importance, since the poetic portrayal of its pursuit features it as the source of an existential authenticity. The first chapter examines the poetic mechanisms used for (re)presenting the form of the embodied subject, mechanisms extending to: (a) identifications between the human body and objects from the lived world, which disestablish the difference between subject and object, so as the first embodies the abilities of the second, while charging them with an expressive value, and (b) chiasms between the human body and certain plants. The second chapter engages with the analysis and interpretation of the poetic conception of seeing as thinking in conjunction with the recurring transitional movement of the "caress"· these two aspects appear to be equally implicated with a –corporeal as well as mental/emotional– depth. In the third chapter, the focus lies on (re)presentations of movements which either affect the material of the body or are performed by it or to it. These movements constitute a sort of a typology, as they can be distinguished in dialectical pairs of reversed expressive qualities: (a) instability and staticness, and (b) detachment and complementing/filling.
Main subject category:
Language – Literature
Keywords:
post-war poetry, post-surrealism, materiality, (re)presentation, embodied subject, chiasm, lived world, expressive qualities, authenticity, intersubjectivity, intercorporeality
