Emily Dickinson’s Subversion of the Puritan Tradition
| Název práce v češtině: | Emily Dickinsonová a subverze puritánské tradice |
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| Název v anglickém jazyce: | Emily Dickinson’s Subversion of the Puritan Tradition |
| Klíčová slova: | Puritanismus|Emily Dickinsonová|Puritánská tradice|Puritánské dědictví|Emily Dickinsonová a náboženství |
| Klíčová slova anglicky: | Emily Dickinson|Puritanism|Puritan heritage|Puritan tradition|Emily Dickinson and religion |
| Akademický rok vypsání: | 2022/2023 |
| Typ práce: | bakalářská práce |
| Jazyk práce: | angličtina |
| Ústav: | Ústav anglofonních literatur a kultur (21-UALK) |
| Vedoucí / školitel: | doc. PhDr. Mariana Machová, Ph.D. |
| Řešitel: | skrytý - zadáno a potvrzeno stud. odd. |
| Datum přihlášení: | 10.01.2023 |
| Datum zadání: | 11.01.2023 |
| Schválení administrátorem: | bylo schváleno |
| Datum potvrzení stud. oddělením: | 11.01.2023 |
| Datum a čas obhajoby: | 20.06.2024 09:00 |
| Datum odevzdání elektronické podoby: | 22.05.2024 |
| Datum proběhlé obhajoby: | 20.06.2024 |
| Odevzdaná/finalizovaná: | odevzdaná studentem a finalizovaná |
| Oponenti: | Mgr. Pavla Veselá, Ph.D. |
| Zásady pro vypracování |
| Emily Dickinson grew up in a deeply religious community, but despite being raised as a practicing church member, she later chose not to join the church. She was, nevertheless, continually in contact with Calvinist beliefs and struggled with her relationship to the divine; where the church saw certainties, she saw questions. Her poetry expresses doubts about the true nature of God, and ponders on the possibilities of afterlife and the lack of consolation left if God is gone. In this thesis, her poetry will be analysed in terms of a conscious subversion of the Puritan tradition of New England. The first part of the thesis will provide the necessary contexts: the cultural context (the Puritan worldview, with particular focus on the Puritan views of God and death, and its pervasive presence in New England) and the essential biographical context (Dickinson’s life, with emphasis on her evolving relationship with the church). The main part of the thesis will examine the ways the Puritan heritage is reflected in Emily Dickinson’s work (with focus on themes, not forms). This will be shown on a selection of poems thematically concerned with God and death. The thesis will try to demonstrate that Emily Dickinson can be viewed as an author who openly engages with the Puritan tradition in her works and subverts it while reaching her own comprehension of the divine. |
| Seznam odborné literatury |
| Bercovitch, Sacvan. The Puritan Origins of the American Self. Yale University Press, 1975. Freedman, Linda. Emily Dickinson and the Religious Imagination. Cambridge University Press, 2011. Gilpin, Clark W. Religion Around Emily Dickinson. Penn State University Press, 2014. Lundon, Roger, James McIntosh, Richard. E. Brantley, Jane Donahue Eberwein, Victoria N. Morgan, Linda Freedman, Miho Nonaka, Thomas Gardner.“Forum: Dickinson and Religion.” Religion & Literature 46, no. 1, (Spring 2014): 138-203.https://www.jstor.org/stable/i24752829. Martin, Wendy, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Emily Dickinson. Cambridge University Press, 2004. McNaughton, Ruth Flanders. “Emily Dickinson on Death.” Prairie Schooner 23, no. 2 (1949): 203–14.http://www.jstor.org/stable/40624107. Miller, Cristanne and Karen Sánchez-Eppler, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Emily Dickinson. Oxford University Press, 2022. Miller, Perry. The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century. Harvard University Press, 1939. Patterson, Rebecca. Emily Dickinson’s Imagery. USA: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1979. Pollak, Vivian R., ed. A Historical Guide to Emily Dickinson. Oxford University Press, 2004. Richards, Eliza, ed. Emily Dickinson in Context. Cambridge University Press. 2013. Wolff, Cynthia Griffin. Emily Dickinson. USA: Da Capo Press, 1988. |