The Poetics of Ledia Dushi

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This monograph offers a sustained critical examination of Ledia Dushi’s poetry, situating her work within the broader horizons of contemporary Albanian and European literary discourse. Through close textual reading and diachronic comparison of three major volumes, the study traces the formation and transformation of a distinctive poetics in which language, image, rhythm, body, sacredness, time, memory, and silence function as structurally interdependent categories. Particular attention is devoted to Dushi’s authorial Gheg, approached not as a folkloric or regional marker, but as an aesthetic medium shaping rhythm, corporeality, and poetic consciousness. The book argues that Dushi’s development is best understood not as a succession of ruptures, but as an internally coherent movement from embodied, instinctive, and figuratively dense expression toward an increasingly restrained, reflective, and self-conscious poetics of form. By bringing one of the distinctive voices of contemporary Albanian poetry into a broader theoretical and critical horizon, the study also seeks to make Dushi’s work more accessible to international literary scholarship.