The Multiple Self in the Poetry of P.K. Page

Type of resource
Author/collaborator
Title
The Multiple Self in the Poetry of P.K. Page
Abstract
The author explains that the relations between reality and language, self and mask, and subjectivity and reality all point to P.K. Page's interest in the conditions in which selves are formed, experienced, and conceptualized. Poet Patricia Kathleen Page (1916-2010) moved to Montreal in the early 1940s and was one of the founders of the little magazine Preview (1942-1945) and its successor, Northern Review. The author notes that the modern artist creates life's meaning by finding/imposing pattern; Page shows her Romantic and Modernist heritage in her poetry but goes beyond these classifications to a new paradigm of the relation between self and world. The author argues that Page's work moves from an early emphasis on alienation as a condition for modern life to the discovery of a self that is related to the universe on levels that are discoverable through the heightened and intensified consciousness that poetry itself makes possible.
Publication
Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne
Volume
Vol. 19
Issue
no. 1
Pages
94-114
Date
Winter 1994
Language
en
URL
Citation
Freake, Douglas. “The Multiple Self in the Poetry of P.K. Page.” Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne Vol. 19, no. 1 (Winter 1994): 94–114. https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/scl/article/view/8196/9253.
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