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Go Back to Personal Experience: on the Self and the Other in the Dream of the Unified Field

Authors
Hanruo Wang1, *
1Faculty of Arts and Humanities, King’s College London, London, WC2R 2LS, United Kingdom
*Corresponding author. Email: claudinewang28@126.com
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Hanruo Wang
Available Online 30 December 2022.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-494069-89-3_359How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Jorie Graham; The Dream of the Unified Field; Punctum; Gaze
Abstract

A renowned contemporary American poetess and Pulitzer Prize winner, Jorie Graham has received great attention and much research in contemporary times for her creative talent. This thesis will select the poem The Dream of the Unified Field, which has the same title as her Pulitzer Prize-winning poem collection and explore Graham’s thoughts through her shaping of the self in relation to others in this poem. Through Roland Barthes’ concept of punctum and the gaze theory of Lacan, Merleau-Ponty and Satre, this thesis will analyse the raised questions. It concludes that by describing the gaze from oneself and the other, Graham calls for a return from purely philosophical reflection to personal experience in order to feel the true integrity of life. This thesis’s exploration of the poem may serve as a small entry point for the reader to understand and grasp Graham's deeper thoughts and poetic system.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2022 5th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2022)
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Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
30 December 2022
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10.2991/978-2-494069-89-3_359
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2352-5398
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