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Abstract:
Anne Bannerman's "The Prophetess of the Oracle of Seäm" has not been studied as thoroughly as her most well-known poem, "The Dark Ladie." Indeed, none of the critical work on Bannerman to this point has focused exclusively on "Prophetess," the second poem in Bannerman's critically-maligned Tales of Superstition and Chivalry. This paper offers a standalone study of Bannerman's "Prophetess," analyzing the poem as an exemplar of Deleuzian eternal return. More specifically, it focuses on the manner in which "Prophetess" enacts two key Deleuzian ideas, repetition and fundamental encounter, thereby opening up the possibility of a uniquely Gothic epistemology that problematizes the Enlightenment insistence on clarity and revelation.
Title: The eternal return of the gothic: Anne Bannerman's "Prophetess of the oracle of seam".
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Name(s): Kundrotas, Kimberly, author.
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Bibliography
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Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation.
Academic Theses.
Academic Theses
Issuance: monographic
Other Date: 2019.
Publisher: University of West Florida,
Place of Publication: Pensacola, Florida :
Physical Form: electronic resource
Extent: 1 online resource (iv, 24 leaves)
Language(s): eng
Abstract: Anne Bannerman's "The Prophetess of the Oracle of Seäm" has not been studied as thoroughly as her most well-known poem, "The Dark Ladie." Indeed, none of the critical work on Bannerman to this point has focused exclusively on "Prophetess," the second poem in Bannerman's critically-maligned Tales of Superstition and Chivalry. This paper offers a standalone study of Bannerman's "Prophetess," analyzing the poem as an exemplar of Deleuzian eternal return. More specifically, it focuses on the manner in which "Prophetess" enacts two key Deleuzian ideas, repetition and fundamental encounter, thereby opening up the possibility of a uniquely Gothic epistemology that problematizes the Enlightenment insistence on clarity and revelation.
Identifier: 1129457279 (oclc), WFE0000663 (IID)
Note(s): by Kimberly Kundrotas.
Department of English, College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities.
M.A. University of West Florida
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 22-24).
Also available in print.
Text (Electronic thesis) in PDF format.
Subject(s): University of West Florida
University of West Florida
Library Classification: LD1807.F62k
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/uwf/fd/WFE0000663
Use and Reproduction: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Host Institution: UWF
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Eternal return of the gothic :
(OCoLC)1129457303

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