"What I Kept Watch On": The Psychology of Heartbreak in Anne Carson's "The Glass Essay"

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An honors thesis in English literature that applies psychoanalytic theory to a reading of Anne Carson's prose poem "The Glass Essay." Through analysis informed by thinkers like Freud and Winnicott, I interpret the poem as a documentation of the work of mourning, outlining the speaker's journey from acute heartbreak towards independent survival.

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Date created June 2017

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Author Flanagan, Clare Keeley

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Subject melancholia
Subject mourning
Subject Anne Carson
Subject psychoanalysis
Subject poetry
Subject Department of English
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Flanagan, Clare Keeley. (6.9.). "What I Kept Watch On": The Psychology of Heartbreak in Anne Carson's "The Glass Essay". Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/yg858rq6134

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