The wall and the wallpaper : thoughts on the afterlife of lyricism
Part of : Γράμμα : περιοδικό θεωρίας και κριτικής ; Vol.8, No.1, 2000, pages 11-23
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11-23
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T. S. Eliot’s writings lend this paper its title and its theme: what is the relationship between illusion and reality in poetic discourse? However the approach is no doubt post-new-critical, especially in the way it problematizes the issue of the reader/ public of poetry and the cultural identity of the poet. This is often determined by “embarrassment”, a feeling that negatively conditions the poet’s answer to the question “what it the function of poetry”: can, after all the wallpaper save us when the walls have collapsed? Or is there always a Harpo Marx holding a wall that will collapse as soon as he moves to the next scene of the film?
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ποίηση, ποιητικός λόγος, ψευδαίσθηση
