The Boustrophedonic Turns Of Suffering in Faithful And Virtuous Night by Louise Glück

In Louise Glück’s latest collection Faithful And Virtuous Night (2014), the poet’s swerving toward a more narrative form contributes—surprisingly perhaps—to revising the traditional Romantic chiasmus that exists between the mourning or suffering personae and their environment. This article attempts...

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Published inTransatlantica Vol. 1; no. 1
Main Author Olivier, Marie
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Association française d'Etudes Américaines (AFEA) 01.07.2021
Association Française d’Études Américaines
Association Française d'Etudes Américaines
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chiasmus
enjambment
Faithful And Virtuous Night
free verse
Humanities and Social Sciences
Louise Glück
narrative
enjambment
vers libre
free verse
chiasmus
Faithful And Virtuous Night
Louise Glück
narration
narrative
chiasme
enjambement
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Summary:In Louise Glück’s latest collection Faithful And Virtuous Night (2014), the poet’s swerving toward a more narrative form contributes—surprisingly perhaps—to revising the traditional Romantic chiasmus that exists between the mourning or suffering personae and their environment. This article attempts at capturing how Glück’s choices in lineation in her verse expose the intrinsic loss and hiatus there is between language and the world. It means to illustrate the way time and lyric subjectivity are structured in Glück’s latest collection.
ISSN:1765-2766
1765-2766
DOI:10.4000/transatlantica.17145