Document Type
Thesis
Major/Program
English
First Advisor's Name
Alfred Lopez, Phd.
First Advisor's Committee Title
Committee Chair
Keywords
psychoanalysis, linguistics, sound, heidegger, poetry, music, reader response, Poe, musicology, lacan
Date of Defense
4-3-2002
Abstract
This study analyzed the reader's relationship to the sounds embedded in a written text for the purpose of identifying those sounds' contribution to the reader's interpretation of that text. To achieve this objective, this study negotiated Heideggerian phenomenology, Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, linguistics, and musicology into a reader response theory, which was then applied to Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven." This study argues that the orchestration of sounds in "The Raven" forces its reader into a regression, which the reader then represses, only to carry the resulting sound-image // away from the poem as a psychic scar.
Identifier
FI08081529
Recommended Citation
Kane, James Gray, "A Musicology for Literary Language" (2002). FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 48.
https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/48
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