%0 Journal Article
%T ¡°I was a stuffed toucan¡±: Poetic Self-Positioning in Robert Lowell¡¯s Life Studies
%A Brunner
%A Eva
%J COPAS : Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies
%D 2012
%I University of Regensburg
%X This paper addresses identity construction in Robert Lowell¡¯s Life Studies. I argue that references to family, history and other poets indirectly inform the presented self image and call this process poetic self-positioning. In contrast to earlier psychoanalytical and biographical readings, this interpretation is based on the notion of narrative identity. Additionally, I stress the relevance of the concept of ¡®emotion¡¯ to identity constructions.
%U http://copas.uni-regensburg.de/article/view/53/169