“Love is the mystery inside this walking”: Anne Carson on the Road to Compostela
This paper explores Anne Carson’s “Kinds of Water: An Essay on the Road to Compostela,” the author’s journal on her pilgrimage to Santiago. Taking water as a metaphor for the Camino, the text reflects the creative dimension of the pilgrimage both from an artistic and personal standpoint. Alternat...
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| description | This paper explores Anne Carson’s “Kinds of Water: An Essay on the Road to Compostela,” the
author’s journal on her pilgrimage to Santiago. Taking water as a metaphor for the Camino, the text
reflects the creative dimension of the pilgrimage both from an artistic and personal standpoint.
Alternative discourses of the female writer and pilgrim occur in a text that is an essay and a meditation
on the forms of resilience put into practice by Carson after facing a series of personal losses. The
progressive construction of self-knowledge is seen as an emancipatory act that transcended Carson’s
mourning period in her experience, which she took as an opportunity to embrace personal
transformation. I suggest that my approach can bring useful perspectives not only to further and refine
knowledge on Carson in Spain but also for the consideration of resilience as an aspect that contributes to
the critical understanding of narratives of individual and social transformation. |
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| spelling | oai:repositorio.ual.es:10835-151842024-01-16T13:20:29Z “Love is the mystery inside this walking”: Anne Carson on the Road to Compostela García Navarro, María Del Carmen Filología y Lingüística Literatura Estudios Ingleses This paper explores Anne Carson’s “Kinds of Water: An Essay on the Road to Compostela,” the author’s journal on her pilgrimage to Santiago. Taking water as a metaphor for the Camino, the text reflects the creative dimension of the pilgrimage both from an artistic and personal standpoint. Alternative discourses of the female writer and pilgrim occur in a text that is an essay and a meditation on the forms of resilience put into practice by Carson after facing a series of personal losses. The progressive construction of self-knowledge is seen as an emancipatory act that transcended Carson’s mourning period in her experience, which she took as an opportunity to embrace personal transformation. I suggest that my approach can bring useful perspectives not only to further and refine knowledge on Carson in Spain but also for the consideration of resilience as an aspect that contributes to the critical understanding of narratives of individual and social transformation. 2024-01-16T13:20:29Z 2024-01-16T13:20:29Z 2021-11 info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2531-1646 http://hdl.handle.net/10835/15184 en DOI: https://doi.org/10.24197/ersjes.42.2021.179-197. info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess ES REVIEW. Spanish Journal of English Studies. Universidad de Valladolid. 2021, vol. 42, pp. 179-197. |
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| title | “Love is the mystery inside this walking”: Anne Carson on the Road to Compostela |
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| title_sort | “love is the mystery inside this walking”: anne carson on the road to compostela |
| topic | Filología y Lingüística Literatura Estudios Ingleses |
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