Self-abnegation and self-assertion in the poetry of Christina Rossetti : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English at Massey University

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dc.contributor.authorGray, Faith Elizabeth
dc.date.accessioned2015-04-08T22:53:42Z
dc.date.available2015-04-08T22:53:42Z
dc.date.issued1995
dc.description.abstractIn the century since her death, Christina Rossetti has most often been described as a "poet of loss", an orthodox devotional poet who wrote of lost love and self-abnegation. This thesis examines Christina's general and religious poetry to discuss the techniques by which statements of self-abnegation are transformed into sometimes radical statements of self-assertion. Particular attention has been paid to those poems which express an individualistic vision of the self as plural and fragmented. An intertextual model has been adopted to examine the poetry's polyphonic nature; the several co-existing 'voices' and themes within Christina's work (yielding and assertive, orthodox and unconventional, Christian and Gothic), have been traced to reveal a poetry of conflict and complexity.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10179/6438
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherMassey Universityen_US
dc.rightsThe Authoren_US
dc.subjectEnglish poetryen_US
dc.subjectLove in literatureen_US
dc.subjectWomen in literatureen_US
dc.subjectChristina Rossettien_US
dc.subject19th century poetryen_US
dc.titleSelf-abnegation and self-assertion in the poetry of Christina Rossetti : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English at Massey Universityen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
massey.contributor.authorGray, Faith Elizabethen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineEnglishen_US
thesis.degree.grantorMassey Universityen_US
thesis.degree.levelMastersen_US
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts (M.A.)en_US
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