What Remains Unsaid: The Poetics of Silence and Resistance in Emily Dickinson and J.H. Prynne

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قسم اللغة الإنجليزية و آدابها، كلية اللغات و الترجمة، جامعة الأزهر، القاهرة، مصر.

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This article explores the poetics of silence and resistance in the works of Emily Dickinson and J.H. Prynne, arguing that silence functions not as mere absence but as a dynamic, subversive force. Drawing on affect theory, negative capability, and poststructuralist linguistics, the study examines how both poets employ silence to challenge dominant norms of language, authority, and meaning-making. Dickinson’s fragmented syntax and idiosyncratic punctuation embody a subtle resistance to patriarchal and theological constraints, while Prynne’s dense, opaque language interrogates the commodification of discourse and its ideological frameworks. The article positions silence as a transhistorical aesthetic strategy—an ethical and epistemological refusal of interpretive finality. By juxtaposing Dickinson’s nineteenth-century lyricism with Prynne’s experimental late-modernist poetics, the study reframes poetic obscurity as a form of resistance that transforms communicative practice and destabilizes cultural assimilation. In this light, silence is not inert but emerges as a productive space for inquiry, critical engagement, and transformative political possibility.

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مجلة الدراسات الإنسانية والأدبية
المجلد 33، العدد 1
يونيو 2025
الصفحة 605-625

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