Browsing by Author "Dr. Gálla Edit"

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    Medical Dehumanisation in Sylvia Plath's Late Poems
    (2019) Dr. Gálla Edit
    The denial of the humanness of certain individuals or groups has long been a source of violent conflicts, atrocities, and exploitation. It was only recently, however, that the more subtle and implicit forms of dehumanisation attracted critical attention. In certain social contexts, any individual can be subjected to treatment that negates his or her human qualities.The medical encounter can be identified as a situation in which the individual often feels deprived of human qualities. Medical dehumanisation is often alluded to in Sylvia Plath’s late poems, but it is explicitly foregrounded in “Tulips” and “The Surgeon at 2a.m.” While the first poem depicts the process of dehumanisation from the perspective of the patient complicit in her objectification, the second conveys the dehumanising attitudes of the medical practitioner. Through the close reading of these poems, this paper argues that medical dehumanisation turns individuals, not into machines which can never completely lose their functionality, but into functionless, inert matter.
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    Oppression and Revolt in Sylvia Plath's Poetry
    (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019) Dr. Gálla Edit
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    Racial, Sexual and Economic Otherness in Gwendolyn Brooks's A Street in Bronzeville
    (Debreceni Református Hittudományi Egyetem, Partium Kiadó, 2020) Dr. Gálla Edit
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    Sylvia Plath’s War Poems and the Gendering of Cultural Space
    (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016) Dr. Gálla Edit
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    The Sinister Aspects of Solitude: Corrupted Loners in Flannery O’Connor’s “The Lame Shall Enter First”
    (2021) Dr. Gálla Edit
    Offering a close reading of Flannery O’Connor’s short story, “The Lame Shall Enter First,” and drawing on concepts of social psychology, this paper argues that the tragic outcome of the interactions between the three protagonists is due to their extended solitude and isolation from other people. Due to their long-term solitude, they have suffered emotional, moral or intellectual damage, which results in mutually destructive social interactions when they intermittently take place. In addition to this aspect of isolation, the clash of beliefs and attitudes is also examined as a contributing factor to the ensuing disaster.