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Towards an Ethic of the Lyric: Taking on the Other in “La Mort de Cleopatre” by Marie Krysinska

Culpepper, Abigail
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4567-3343
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1564684012184959

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2019, Master of Arts, Miami University, French.
The unique efficacy of the lyric lies in its ability to describe moments that everyday language cannot, as seen in the popularity of love poems and elegies. Yet, such usage of poetic language overlooks the complex relationships between the self and other which make the signifying power of such language possible. In turn, how is one to understand the relationship to this other, and what are the ethical implications of such a connection? In response to this question, this project examines poetic signification, the relationship between the self and Other, and its ethics. To do so, the project offers an analysis of both the poem “La Mort de Cleopatre” by nineteenth century Polish French poet, Marie Krysinska, and a line of theoretical arguments to elucidate the ethical relationship between self and other seen in the lyric. The analysis also turns to the works of; Jean-Paul Sartre, Maurice Blanchot, Roland Barthes, Adrianna Cavarero and Emmanuel Levinas to address the signifying nature of the lyric and the relationship between language, being, and otherness. As a result of this discussion, the project proposes a defense of Krysinska's style and an ethic of the lyric based on the interconnectivities of being.
Jonathan Strauss (Committee Chair)
Audrey Wasser (Committee Member)
Elisabeth Hodges (Committee Member)
67 p.
Foreign Language; Romance Literature
Marie Krysinska; symbolism; poetry; lyric studies; critical theory; ethics; literary ethics; french studies; french; symbolist poetry; Cleopatra;

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  • Culpepper, A. (2019). Towards an Ethic of the Lyric: Taking on the Other in “La Mort de Cleopatre” by Marie Krysinska [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1564684012184959

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Culpepper, Abigail. Towards an Ethic of the Lyric: Taking on the Other in “La Mort de Cleopatre” by Marie Krysinska. 2019. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1564684012184959.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Culpepper, Abigail. "Towards an Ethic of the Lyric: Taking on the Other in “La Mort de Cleopatre” by Marie Krysinska." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1564684012184959

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