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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New Prairie Press
2006-06-01
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| Series: | Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature |
| Online Access: | http://newprairiepress.org/sttcl/vol30/iss2/9 |