Texts of Light and Shadow: Dickens and Lautréamont in Alejandra Pizarnik's Sombra Poems

In her poetry, the Argentinean Alejandra Pizarnik (1936-72) persistently explores the transformations that the poetic subject undergoes in language. She articulates a cycle wherein the subject's desire to (re)create herself as a presence in language is followed by the desire for death, the abse...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Beth Zeiss
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: New Prairie Press 2006-06-01
Series:Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Online Access:http://newprairiepress.org/sttcl/vol30/iss2/9