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Yetişmekte Olan Bir Kadın Şair: Elizabeth Barrett Browning’in Aurora Leigh Adlı Eseri

Year 2021, Volume: 1 Issue: 1, 31 - 40, 08.10.2021

Abstract

Bu makale Elizabeth Barrett Browning’in Aurora Leigh başlıklı eserini Viktoryen şiir geleneği ve kadın şairlere karşı tutumlar bağlamında kadın şairlerin erkek egemen edebi gelenekteki yerleriyle ilgili çağdaş tartışmaları çözümleyerek analiz etmektedir. Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh’de şair olmak isteyen genç bir kızın hikayesini anlatır ve Aurora’nın karşılaştığı ve üstesinden geldiği engelleri gösterir. Aurora’nın şair olma yolculuğunda, Barrett Browning aynı zamanda Viktoryen değerleri, normları, yaşam tarzlarını, şiir üzerine tartışmaları, ve kadın sorununu açığa çıkarır ve bunlar üzerine yorum yapar. Bu bağlamda, bu makale Elizabeth Barrett Browning’in Aurora Leigh başlıklı eserini Viktoryen kadın şair kavramına karşı tutumlar ve şiir ve sosyal değişimler üzerine yapılan çeşitli çağdaş tartışmaları irdeleyerek inceler.

References

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A Woman Poet in Process: Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Aurora Leigh

Year 2021, Volume: 1 Issue: 1, 31 - 40, 08.10.2021

Abstract

This paper analyses Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Aurora Leigh within the context of Victorian poetry and the attitudes towards women poets by examining contemporary debates regarding the position of women poets in the male-dominated literary tradition. In Aurora Leigh, Barrett Browning narrates the story of a young girl who aspires to be a poet and displays the obstacles Aurora faces and overcomes. In Aurora’s journey of becoming a poet, Barrett Browning also reveals and comments on Victorian values, norms, ways of living, poetic discussions, and the woman question. In this regard, this paper analyses Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Aurora Leigh by scrutinising Victorian attitudes towards the concept of a woman poet and also various contemporary debates on poetry and social changes.

References

  • Barrett Browning, Elizabeth. “Aurora Leigh.” The Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Editions, 1994.
  • Cooper, Helen. Woman and Artist. London: The U of North Carolina P, 1988.
  • David, Deirdre. ““Art’s Service”: Social Wound, Sexual Politics, and Aurora Leigh.” Critical Essays on Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Ed. Donaldson, Sandra. New York: G.K. Hall & Co., 1999.
  • Gilbert, M. Sandra and Susan Gubar. Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination. New Haven: Yale UP, 1979.
  • Ostricker, Alicia. “The Thieves of Language: Women Poets and Revisionist Myth Making.” Signs. The. U of Chicago P, Vol.8, No.1, (Autumn 1982). 68-90. <www.jstor.org/stable/3173482>. 08.02.2021.
  • Sadun, Hande. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: The Woman Poet’s Voice. Diss. Ankara: Hacettepe University, 1998.
  • Zonana, Joyce. “The Embodied Muse: Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Aurora Leigh and Feminist Poetics.” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature. University of Tulsa, Vol. 8, No. 2, (Autumn 1989). 240-262. <www.jstor.org/stable/463737>. 18.02.2021.
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Primary Language English
Journal Section Research Articles
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Azime Pekşen Yakar 0000-0002-5727-813X

Publication Date October 8, 2021
Submission Date December 10, 2020
Published in Issue Year 2021 Volume: 1 Issue: 1

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APA Pekşen Yakar, A. (2021). A Woman Poet in Process: Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Aurora Leigh. Akademik Açı, 1(1), 31-40.