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The Dialogical Self in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

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Last updated: 24 Dec 2024

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اللغويات

Abstract

Taking Hubert Hermans' the Dialogical Self Theory (DST) as a framework, this paper attempts to find out psychological clues to the ambiguity of “the Rime of the Ancient Mariner,". With Coleridge's known interest in psychology in mind, especially his refutation of the unity of the self in favor of multiplicity of the self, this paper tends to read the poem as a dialogical-self narrative reflecting all the possible I-positions needed to form a creative and psychologically normal self of the typical romantic poet. The poem with its narrative structure, narrative voices, gothic scenes and religious hints, reflects the dialogical I-positions proposed by the DST. As a typical dynamic structure of the human self, the dialogical "self" narrated in the "Rime" struggles to enhance its poetic sensitivity and romanticism that falls between its own uncertainties and a surrounding unrecognizing society. Conflicts, contradictions and sometimes integrations are all possible interactions that happen between these different I-positions in a self that extends between its internal I-positions and its external I-positions to fulfill the balance needed between centering and decentering positions in order to attain unity and, at the same time, sense of creativity.

DOI

10.21608/jfafu.2022.117556.1689

Keywords

Coleridge, romantic poetry, DST, narration

Authors

First Name

Asmaa

Last Name

Elshikh

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Affiliation

Egypt, Damanhour University, Faculty of Arts, English Department, Dr. Asmaa Elshikh

Email

asmaa.soliman@art.dmu.edu.eg

City

Damanhour

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0000000319217405

Volume

13

Article Issue

العدد 1 (اللغويات)

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19806

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2021-01-01

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2022-01-21

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2021-01-01

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2,357

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2,389

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2357-0709

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2735-3281

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970

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مجلة کلية الآداب جامعة الفيوم

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https://jfafu.journals.ekb.eg/

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The Dialogical Self in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

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22 Jan 2023