Types of the “Emotive-I” of R.L. Stevenson’s Identity in the Children’s Poetic Discourse
This paper aims to interpret the principle of the emotive constructing the poet’s identity on the basis of R.L. Stevenson’s letters (Alps, Highlands, Hyeres, Bournemouth, 1880-1887) and of the poems from A Child’s Garden of Verses (Robert Stevenson, 1885). The study focuses on the concept of “ide...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Bucharest Publishing House
2019-10-01
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| Series: | Styles of Communication |
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| Online Access: | https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxzdHlsZXNvZmNvbW18Z3g6M2I0MjVkYzM3ZTk2MmYzNQ |
| Summary: | This paper aims to interpret the principle of the emotive constructing the poet’s identity
on the basis of R.L. Stevenson’s letters (Alps, Highlands, Hyeres, Bournemouth, 1880-1887) and
of the poems from A Child’s Garden of Verses (Robert Stevenson, 1885). The study focuses on
the concept of “identity”, considering the identity of R.L. Stevenson as the children’s poet
and on the category of emotiveness. This principle constructing the poet’s identity is presented
by referring to the theory of the “I-concept”, the psycho-biological model of emotive event. This
article includes the recognition of the types of “emotive-I” of R.L. Stevenson’s identity which are
represented in the children’s poetic discourse. The features of actualization of types such as,
“childlike”, “wonderer”, “optimist”, lyricist”, “fantasizer”, “ingenuous”, “moralist”, and
“dreamer”, are described using linguistic description. This study also presents the quantitative
correlation of the types of the “emotive-I” of R.L. Stevenson’s identity in the children’s poetic
discourse and indicates the possibilities for further investigation of identity. |
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| ISSN: | 2065-7943 2067-564X |