Once Below a Time by Eynel Wardi

Once Below a Time by Eynel Wardi

Highly original and theoretically wide-ranging, this book offers new insights into the origins of poetry. Working with much of the significant primary and secondary literature in psychoanalysis, particularly the theories of Julia Kristeva, the book skillfully sketches out a psychoanalytically enhanced theory of poetics through close readings of the works of Dylan Thomas. Through an intense dialogue with pivotal poems, it offers a subjectivist theory of poetic language, one that focuses on the interrelation between meaning and subjectivity in the dynamics of the poetic text. In this scheme, the genesis of the speaking subject is held to be a reenactment of old and new fantasies of origins, the reality of which is inaccessible to us--buried, as it were, below time. Among these fantasies, the author also recognizes the psychoanalytic fantasy of origins that guides her own project.

"The basic premise of the book—that Kristevan poetics can shed light on Thomas' work and vice-versa—reveals unexpected ramifications of eachThe theoretical issues posed are fundamental ones, and the readings of Thomas often satisfying and surprising. The work will be useful to people studying Thomas and to people trying to work through the implications of Kristeva's more recent work for literary study." — Joshua Wilner, City College, CUNY

"I particularly like the way in which Wardi reads Kristeva in relation to other important psychoanalytic figures, such as Klein, Freud, Winnicott, and Lacan. Overall, I think that Wardi's affirmative reading of Kristeva, especially in relation to Klein, is both compelling and astute. In her close attention to the poetics of Kristeva, Wardi has not overlooked the most important aspect of Kristevian scholarship. I have not read many books which take Kristeva this seriously on this sophisticated a level." — Linda Belau, Department of Comparative Literature, Binghamton University

"I particularly like the way in which Wardi reads Kristeva in relation to other important psychoanalytic figures, such as Klein, Freud, Winnicott, and Lacan. Overall, I think that Wardi's affirmative reading of Kristeva, especially in relation to Klein, is both compelling and astute. In her close attention to the poetics of Kristeva, Wardi has not overlooked the most important aspect of Kristevian scholarship. I have not read many books which take Kristeva this seriously on this sophisticated a level." — Linda Belau, Department of Comparative Literature, Binghamton University

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ISBN 13	9780791445600
ISBN 10	0791445607
Title	Once Below a Time
Author	Eynel Wardi
Series	Suny Series In Psychoanalysis And Culture
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	State University of New York Press
Year published	2000-05-11
Number of pages	254
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