The Politics of Monologist Representation <span class="so-article-trans-title" dir="auto"> Translated title: ألاعيب التصوير المونولوجي </span>

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The Politics of Monologist Representation Translated title: ألاعيب التصوير المونولوجي

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Author(s): Musa Al-Halool موسى الحالول

Publication date (Print): 1 January 2021

Journal: Bethlehem University Journal

Publisher: Pluto Journals

Keywords: dramatic monologue, representation, objectivist posturing, reader's enthrallment, المونولوج الد ا رمي, التمثيل, التظاهر بالموضوعية, أسْر القارئ

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This article proffers a deconstructionist reading of the dramatic monologue and examines its rhetorical strategies and the politics of monologic representation, by which the first-person speaker/monologist monopolizes discursive space and over-represents himself, while silencing other voices in the text and refusing them the freedom and space to express themselves. Through a close analysis of monologist representation of the Other in various texts, including “Mending Wall” by Robert Frost, “Devonshire Street W. 1” by John Betjeman, as well as Ron Carlson’s short story “Bigfoot Stole My Wife” (albeit a dramatic monologue in prose), this article seeks to expose the ways in which the poetic persona is always partial, interested, and subjective, with not-so-subtle an agenda, a speaker who passes value judgments on the human objects of his overbearing tone. By examining the politics of monologist representation against both Aristotelian ethos and Bakhtinian intonation, the article suggests that readers and critics can give voice to the voiceless in this elastic genre and abandon their sympathetic interpretations that practically absolve monologists of any bias towards their absent enemies or any politics of representation.

تقدم هذه الدراسة قراءة تفكيكية مضادة للمونولوج الدرامي وتحلل الأساليب البلاغية وألاعيب التمثيل التي يلجأ إليها الراوي المونولوجي لاحتكار الفضاء الخطابي من خلال التمثيل الذاتي المفرط، وإسكات الأصوات الأخرى في النص وحرمانها من الحرية والفضاء للتعبير عن أنفسها .فمن خلال التحليل الدقيق لتمثيلات الآخر في بعض القصائد الإنجليزية مثل "إصلاح جدار" لروبرت فروست، "شارع دِڤِنشَر غرب 1" لجون بِتْجيمَن وقصة رون كارلسن "الغول اختطف زوجتي" (وهي مونولوج نثري)، تبين هذه الدراسة الأساليب التي تظهر بها الشخصية الشعرية دائمًا متحيزة وغير موضوعية، مع أجندة مكشوفة، ، كمتحدث يصدر أحكاماً قيمة على البشر عبر نبرته المتعجرفة. من خلال تحليل ألاعيب التمثيل المونولوجي مقارنة بـ نظريات أرسطو وباختين، يقترح المقال أن القراء والنقاد يمكنهم التعاطف مع من لا صوت لهم في هذا النوع الأدبي المرن والتخلي عن تفسيراتهم المتعاطفة التي تبرئ الراوي المونولوجي عمليًا من أي تحيز تجاه أعدائهم الغائبين أو أي ألاعيب تمثيلية.

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Al-Halool Musa الحالول موسى

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Journal ID (doi): 10.2307/j50020020

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Title: Bethlehem University Journal

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ISSN: 2521-3695

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Publication date (Print): 1 January 2021

Volume: 38

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Pages: 127-149

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Professor of English & Comparative Literature, Taif University, Saudi Arabia

أستاذ الألأدب الإلإنجليزي والألأدب المقارن، جامعة الطائف، المملكة العربية السعودية

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Keywords: objectivist posturing,representation,reader's enthrallment,التمثيل,التظاهر بالموضوعية,أسْر القارئ,dramatic monologue,المونولوج الد ا رمي

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[1] Abrams, M. H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. 7th ed., Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1999.

[2] Betjeman, John. “Devonshire Street W. 1.” Collected Poems by John Betjeman. Introduced by Andrew Motion, John Murray, 2006, pp. 177-78.

[3] Browning, Robert. “My Last Duchess.” Robert Browning's Poetry. edited by James F. Loucks and Andrew M. Stauffer, 2nd ed., Norton, 2007, pp. 83-84.

[4] Browning, Robert. “Porphyria's Lover.” Robert Browning's Poetry, edited by James F. Loucks and Andrew M. Stauffer, 2nd ed., Norton, 2007, pp. 101-103.

[5] Byron, Glennis. Dramatic Monologue. Routledge, 2003.

[6] Carlson, Ron. “Bigfoot Stole My Wife.” A Kind of Flying: Selected Stories by Ron Carlson, W. W. Norton & Company, 2003, pp. 79-83.

[7] Carlson, Ron. “I Am Bigfoot.” A Kind of Flying: Selected Stories by Ron Carlson, W. W. Norton & Company, 2003, pp. 84-86.

[8] Carlson, Ron. “What We Wanted to Do.” The Hotel Eden: Stories by Ron Carlson, W. W. Norton & Company, 1997, pp. 91-97.

[9] Culler, A. Dwight. “Monodrama and the Dramatic Monologue.” PMLA, vol. 90, 1975, pp. 366-85.

[10] Faggen, Robert. The Cambridge Introduction to Robert Frost. Cambridge University Press, 2008.

[11] Frost, Robert. “Mending Wall.” The Poetry of Robert of Frost: The Collected Poems, edited by Edward Connery Lathem, Henry Holt & Company, 1979, pp. 33-34.

[12] Hughes, Linda. The Many Fac'ed Glass: Tennyson's Dramatic Monologues. Ohio University Press, 1987.

[13] Langbaum, Robert. The Poetry of Experience: The Dramatic Monologue in Modern Literary Tradition. 1957. Random House, 1985.

[14] Mitchell, W. J. T. “Representation.” Critical Terms for Literary Study, edited by Frank Lentricchia and Thomas McLaughlin, The University of Chicago Press, 1990, pp. 11-22.

[15] Painter, Megan Gribskov. The Aesthetic of the Victorian Dramatic Monologue. The Edwin Mellen Press, 2000.

[16] Parini, Jay. Robert Frost: A Life. Henry Holt & Company, 1999.

[17] Pearsall, Cornelia. Tennyson's Rapture: Transformation in the Victorian Dramatic Monologue, Oxford University Press, 2008.

[18] Perrine, Laurence and Thomas R. Arp. Sound and Sense: An Introduction to Poetry. 8th Ed., Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1992.

[19] Sessions, Ina Beth. “The Dramatic Monologue.” PMLA, vol. 62, 1947, pp. 503-16.

[20] Tucker, Herbert F. “Dramatic Monologue and the Overhearing of Lyric.” In Robert Browning's Poetry, edited by James F. Loucks and Andrew M. Stauffer, 2nd ed., Norton, 2007, pp. 542-57.

[21] Verdonk, Peter. Stylistics. Oxford University Press, 2002.

[22] Wagner-Lawlor, Jennifer A. “The Pragmatics of Silence, and the Figuration of the Reader in Browning's Dramatic Monologues.” Robert Browning's Poetry, edited by James F. Loucks and Andrew M. Stauffer, 2nd ed., Norton, 2007, pp. 576-89.