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- Title
Postmodernist Techniques of the Reader's Engagement in Susan Howe's Hinge Picture.
- Authors
Rasheed, Aisha Khalid; Hassan, Mohamad Fleih
- Abstract
Susan Howe (1937- ) is an influential American poet and critic. She used a lot of postmodernist techniques in her poetry to keep her poetry up-to-date to the current themes and situations of her time. Her poetry has been approached within the framework of feminism and psychoanalysis as examples. However, Howe's techniques have not been investigated in light of the postmodernist thought. Thus, this article aims at examining Howe's employment of the postmodern techniques and the motives behind using them in her poem Hinge Picture. Borders, margins, and separating lines are all important techniques used in different ways in Howe’s poetry. Thus, the study examines these techniques in light of the assumptions of the postmodernist thought. The appearance of the text on the page in various forms was a point of interest for Howe. The key issue in Howe's work is that the subjectivity of the author must be eliminated, with the literary work being viewed as fully objective, to give a chance for creativity. Howe's writing purpose was to bring the reader into the text by using a range of techniques to fill in the gaps in history of her time. The study concludes that Howe employs these techniques to engage the reader in the process of debriefing different interpretations from her text Hinge Picture. She wants to convince the reader to be active when viewing the text, allowing him to use his imagination to come up with something new. Howe's works contributed worth, values, and relevance to literature by making each reader an author in his own right as a result of giving the reader all of these opportunities.
- Subjects
HOWE, Susan, 1937-; ENGAGED reading; HINGES; IMAGINATION; AMERICAN poets; AUTHOR-reader relationships; PSYCHONEUROIMMUNOLOGY; PICTURES
- Publication
Journal of The Iraqi University, 2022, Vol 57, Issue 1, p710
- ISSN
1813-4521
- Publication type
Article