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Anafora : Journal of Literary Studies, Vol. VII No. 1, 2020.

Preliminary communication

https://doi.org/10.29162/ANAFORA.v7i1.10

Lacanian "Gaze" in John Keats’s "The Eve of St. Agnes": A Romance of Resistance

Shafigheh Keivan orcid id orcid.org/0000-0002-2246-2711 ; Université Jean-Moulin Lyon III Lyon, France

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Abstract

"The Eve of St. Agnes" is one of Keats’s most challenging poems when it comes to the poet’s emotions and beliefs on social structures, life, death, men, and women. Consequently, The Eve of St. Agnes becomes the arena of the conflict between femininity and masculinity, which preoccupied the poet during the composition of the poem. In the essay, we seek to examine this conflict in The Eve of St. Agnes through the Lacanian concept of the Gaze. This point of view allows us to analyze Keats’s ambivalence towards gender.

Keywords

John Keats, "The Eve of St. Agnes", Gaze, Lacan, divided selves, resistance, Real

Hrčak ID:

240779

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/240779

Publication date:

29.6.2020.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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