Keats’ “Lamia:” the serpentine dialectic

dc.contributor	Graduate Program in English Literature.
dc.contributor.advisor	Sevgen, Cevza.
dc.contributor.advisor	Bulamur, Ayşe Naz.
dc.contributor.author	Pekgöz, Kürşat K.
dc.date.accessioned	2023-03-16T12:05:37Z
dc.date.available	2023-03-16T12:05:37Z
dc.date.issued	2014.
dc.identifier.other	EL 2014 P45
dc.identifier.uri	http://digitalarchive.boun.edu.tr/handle/123456789/16491
dc.description.abstract	This thesis is an attempt to disentangle the serpentine dialectic of Keats’ “Lamia.” I am positing three transformations in the development of the mixoparthenos figure: monstrous mother, a cannibalistic and vampiric phantom, and a tragic character. All three layers of myth are fully present in Keats’ poem, but Lamia is ultimately more tragic than monstrous. I also posit that Keats’ version of the story is more sympathetic to the she-serpent at least partly because Keats, unlike Plato, values imagination over reason.
dc.format.extent	30 cm.
dc.publisher	Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2014.
dc.title	Keats’ “Lamia:” the serpentine dialectic
dc.format.pages	vii, 62 leaves ;