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The Pursuit of the Ideal and the Reality of the Art-Object: Intertextuality, Antilogike, and Self-awareness in the Works of D. G. Rossetti

Year 2021, Volume: 9 Issue: 2, 828 - 840, 30.07.2021
https://doi.org/10.17067/asm.865930

Abstract

D.G. Rossetti's works reveal how the poet, as an aestheticist through his pursuit of the ideal, frees the concept of reality from pre-given limitations. He mainly creates an open field of renegotiation, even introducing an alternative understanding of real and authentic. In his famous poems "The Blessed Damozel" and "The Burden of Nineveh," Rossetti applies intertextuality and signifies the potential of dialectic poetry. His focus on aesthetic qualities and the subversion of the subject matter assures interpretative ambiguity. This kind of ambiguity rather than confusion achieves poetic self-awareness and omens future perceptions of reality, which can be composed by an object, as an artistic process, or the artistic object itself. This article recognizes the links of ancient (Platonic) philosophy on Aesthetics and Reality with contemporary opinions in Philosophical Realism. However, it mainly focuses on two distinctive works of the Victorian poet as a contemplating station of how an artistic object, freed from any responsibility except its consistency on its aesthetic qualities, can signify dialectic (higher state of cognition) processes affording reality.

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İdeal Arayışı ve Sanat-Nesnesinin Gerçekliği; D. G. Rossetti’nin Eserlerinde Metinlerarasılık, Antilogike, ve Öz Farkındalık.

Year 2021, Volume: 9 Issue: 2, 828 - 840, 30.07.2021
https://doi.org/10.17067/asm.865930

Abstract

D. G. Rossetti'nin eserleri ideal arayışında bir estetisyen olarak şairin, gerçeklik kavramını önceden belirlenmiş sınırlamalarından nasıl özgür bıraktığını ortaya koymaktadır. Çoğunlukla tekrar müzakere için açık bir alan oluşturmaktadır. Ünlü şiirleri “The Blessed Damozel” ve “The Burden of Nineveh,”da Rosettti, metinlerarasılığı uygular ve diyalektik şiirin potansiyelini gösterir. Estetiğin kalitesine odaklanması ve ana fikrin yıkılması, yorumlayıcı belirsizliği temin eder. Bu şekilde bir belirsizlik, karışıklıktan daha ziyade şiirsel öz farkındalığı sağlar. Ayrıca sanatsal bir süreç veya sanatsal nesnenin kendisi olarak bir nesneden oluşabilen gerçekliğin gelecekteki algılarını işaret eder. Bu çalışma, antik (platonik) felsefenin estetik ve gerçeklik ile felsefi gerçekçilikte çağdaş düşüncelere olan ilişkilerini ortaya koymaktadır. Asıl olarak, Viktorya dönemi şairin ayırt edici iki eserine, sanatsal bir nesnenin nasıl çalıştığına dair bir durak olarak odaklanmaktadır. Aynı zamanda, estetiğin kalitesi üzerindeki tutarlılığından ziyade herhangi bir sorumluluktan bağımsızlaşır, gerçekliği sağlayan diyalektik, yüksek biliş durumu, süreçleri gösterebilir.

References

  • Althusser, L. (1971). Ideology and ideological state apparatus. In B. Brewster (Trans.) Lenin and philosophy and other essays, 85-126, New York: Monthly Review Press.
  • Coleridge, S. T. (2012). Rime of the ancient mariner. In S. Greenblatt (Ed.), The norton anthology of English literature, 9/2, 443-459, London, New York: Norton & Company.
  • Coleridge, S. T. (2012). Kubla Khan. In S. Greenblatt (Ed.), The norton anthology of english literature, 9/2, 459-462, London, New York: Norton & Company.
  • Eagleton, T. (1990). The ideology of the aesthetic. Oxford: Blackwell Press.
  • Ferber, M. (1999). A Dictionary of literary symbols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Harman, G. (2018). Object-oriented ontology: A new theory of everything. UK: Pelican Books.
  • Harrison, A. (1989). Dante Rossetti: Parody and ideology. Studies in English literature, 1500-1900, 29/4, 745-761.
  • Keats, J. (1990). John Keats: The major works. In E. Cook (Ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Keats, J. (1990). Letter to B. Bailey, March 13 1818. In E. Cook (Ed.) John Keats: The major works, 381-383, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Keats, J. (1990). Ode to a nightingale. In E. Cook (Ed.) John Keats: The major works, 285- 288, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Keats, J. (1990). Ode on a Grecian urn. In E. Cook (Ed.) John Keats: The major works, 288- 289, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Moore, C. (2012). Socrates psychagogos. Socratica III. In S. F. Rossetti (Ed.), 1- 19.
  • Morris, P. (Ed.), (2003). The Bakhtin reader: Selected writings of Bakhtin, Medvedev and Voloshinov, London: Arnold publishers.
  • Plato. (2008). Symposium, Benjamin, Jowett, Trans., November 7, 2008. Project Gutenberg, www.Gutenberg.org/1/6/0/1600/.
  • Plato. (2008). Republic, , Benjamin, Jowett, Trans., August 27, 2008. Project Gutenberg, www.Gutenberg.org/1/4/9/1497/.
  • Plato. (2008). Phaedrus, , Benjamin, Jowett, Trans., October 30, 2008. Project Gutenberg, www.Gutenberg.org/1/6/3/1636/.
  • Πλάτωνας. (2015). Φαίδρος, December 3, 2015, http://el.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title= Φαίδρος&oldid=55461
  • Rossetti, D. G. (2012). The blessed damozel. In S. Greenblatt (Ed.), The norton anthology of English literature, 9/2, 1472-1476, London, New York: Norton & Company.
  • Rossetti, D. G. The burden of Nineveh. The Victorian web: Literature, history, and culture in the Victorian age, http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/dgr/5.html.
  • Spector, S. J. (1971). Love, unity, and desire in the poetry of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. ELH, 38/3, 432-458.
  • Stillinger, J. (Ed.). (2000). Dante Gabriel Rossetti: 1828-1882. The norton anthology of english literature,7/2, London, New York: Norton & Company.
  • Uhlig, C. (1985). Literature as textual palingenesis: On some principles of literary history. NLH, 16/3, 481-514.
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Primary Language English
Subjects Language Studies, Philosophy, Creative Arts and Writing
Journal Section Philosophy
Authors

Anna Asıatıdou 0000-0002-7498-2348

Publication Date July 30, 2021
Submission Date January 21, 2021
Published in Issue Year 2021 Volume: 9 Issue: 2

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APA Asıatıdou, A. (2021). The Pursuit of the Ideal and the Reality of the Art-Object: Intertextuality, Antilogike, and Self-awareness in the Works of D. G. Rossetti. Asia Minor Studies, 9(2), 828-840. https://doi.org/10.17067/asm.865930