Naslov
Robert Browning's Dramatic Monologue as a Medium of Intrasingence

Autori
Čuljat, Sintija

Izvornik
(sic)- a journal of literature, culture and literary translation, University of Zadar (1847-7755) 3 (2012), 1; 1-29

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, ostalo

Ključne riječi
Robert Browning, dramatic monologue, narrative verse, disruptive rhetoric, verbal self-fashioning

Sažetak
Probing the dramatic monologue of Robert Browning (1812-1899) has maintained a long tradition of reflecting this poet as an experimenter and pursuer of the Victorian representation de-norming process. Browning's narrative verse employs ambiguation through syntactic rendition of his dramatis personae who voice their minds beyond the restraints of dialogic turn-taking and divulge their impulses through verbal dominance. Browning's dramatic monologue evolves into a vibrant and mutable poetic medium whose formal properties are exploited to gradually disclose the protagonists' attitude underscoring the central theme. Their unexpected lapsing into a personalized speech mode provides relevant verbal and nonverbal material for these creations' poetic psychograms. The intractable mysteries of one's self are seeping through the welter of commonalities. With common parlance downtoning a personal horror vacui, Browning also ponders the ways in which the rigours of the collective may shackle individuality ; therefore, he frames his dramatic monologues as vehicles of formal as well as notional variation, or the vehicles of expressing non-conformity. The agents of his dramatic narrative poetic compositions wield an outstandingly apodictic, categorical style of argumentation.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

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