"What I Kept Watch On": The Psychology of Heartbreak in Anne Carson's "The Glass Essay"
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- 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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Type of resource | text |
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Date created | June 2017 |
Creators/Contributors
Author | Flanagan, Clare Keeley |
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Subjects
Subject | melancholia |
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Subject | mourning |
Subject | Anne Carson |
Subject | psychoanalysis |
Subject | poetry |
Subject | Department of English |
Genre | Thesis |
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Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/yg858rq6134 |
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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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