Plaintive voices are very important, not just poetically but historically and socially, because they express a movement of subjectification (‘poor me …’): there’s a whole order of elegiac subjectivity.
Plaintive voices are very important, not just poetically but historically and socially, because they express a movement of subjectification (‘poor me …’): there’s a whole order of elegiac subjectivity.
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