The amatory S/subject in Allan Popa's Samsara: A tale of love?
Date of Publication
2005
Document Type
Bachelor's Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts in Literature
Subject Categories
Comparative Literature
College
College of Liberal Arts
Department/Unit
Literature
Thesis Adviser
David Jonathan Bayot
Defense Panel Member
Ronald Baytan
Genevieve Asenjo
Anne Frances Sangil
Abstract/Summary
This thesis analyzes seven poems of Allan Popa, namely Gift , Makata , and the five-part sequence Mga Usapin ng Puso , which were all culled from his book, Samsara, in light of Julia Kristeva's theory of the semiotic. In particular, this thesis questions whether the aforementioned poems are fit to be called amatory discourses in the Kristevan sense.
According to Kristeva, for any discourse to become amatory, it must be able to capture the drives and/or affects that inform the condition in language. This task mainly credited to the semiotic devices that she developed: morphophonematic, syntactic, pronomial and contextual. All these devices disrupt the symbolic of language--and thus, the symbolic O / order as well--by interrupting the punctual presentation of meaning through words.
The results of the study show that only four of the aforementioned poems were able to access the semiotic of language satisfactorily and, thus, are the only ones who are able to capture the effect of the amatory condition and become valid lover's discourses. The rest, although able to access the semiotic of language, were unable to at least give it equal importance with the symbolic. These fail to put to the forefront the semiotic of language, and thus, seem to be concerned with presenting the narratives they contain.
Abstract Format
html
Language
English
Format
Accession Number
TU13731
Shelf Location
Archives, The Learning Commons, 12F, Henry Sy Sr. Hall
Physical Description
53 leaves ; 28 cm.
Keywords
Popa; Allan C--Poetry; Poems--Collections; Poets; Filipino
Recommended Citation
Calilao, C. A. (2005). The amatory S/subject in Allan Popa's Samsara: A tale of love?. Retrieved from https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/2124
