Thresholes

By Lara Mimosa Montes

Mohammed Sameer Abd Elsalam

Reviewed on Jul 2, 2021

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Lara Mimosa used narrative logic, free association, intertextuality and intense poetic sentences to reduce the speaker's singular becoming.

In her poetry book Thresholds, Lara Mimosa Montes implied, in her creative texture, to several interacted groups of signs, that she described the speaker's individual identity through a global and existential moment, then she interpreted herself through the tones of aesthetic signs which included everyday life cards, some snapshots of effective movies, such as Bergeman's The Seventh Seal or Jack Garfein's Something Wild. On the other hand, the speaker constructed her new virtual life from these images and transformed them into her internal world in order to make a new cognitive perspective of her relative existence during the act of writing. Therefore, she confirmed the concept of the narrative identity according to Paul Ricœur. In particular, she recreated her presence in some other imaginary contexts beyond Bergman's game of death or beyond the delayed destiny of Mary Ann in her consciousness and unconsciousness. In this context, Lara Mimosa used narrative logic, free association, intertextuality and intense poetic sentences to reduce the speaker's singular becoming.


Consequently, the speaker entered us into her new postmodern representations, that she confirmed both process and indeterminacy according to Ihab Hassan's postmodern perspective at his famous table. So, she implied the liquid interacted images in her text and discourse, such as the creative emptiness, wave metaphor, beautiful scratches, time turns, snakes, fictional imagination, alternation of space, incarnation, and aerial being. Therefore, she reproduced her present moment in continual liquid signs or simulacrums to go beyond the firm forms.


Moreover, we can read two iconic signs in Lara Mimosa's text according to Charles Sanders Peirce's semiotic method; the first is the sign of wave, that it reflected the object of the poetic transformation inside the structure of identity. So, it asserted the internal tones of multiplication and absence together and the activity of the subject beyond the previous borders. Furthermore, we can assume that the discourse transformed the image of the wave in the context of forming a poetic and creative identity which was occurred between the artistic field and the wide cosmic space.


Further, the second iconic sign is the hole, which reflected the poetic space and its deep impact on the subject or her creative spectral roles in the context of interaction between writing and reality. So, we can conclude that the speaker wanted to enter an imaginary and liquid virtual world behind the metaphorical emptiness and she looked forward to forming multiple playful signs.

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I'm a literary critic, art critic and graphic designer. I had a doctorate degree in 2011 in studying the female novel according to the thematic criticism. Also, I'm concerned about postmodernism, cultural studies, semiotics, discourse analysis, cognitive linguistics and literary pragmatics.

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