- Tytuł:
- The Narrator’s Identity and the Pursuit of Trespassing Boundaries in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
- Autorzy:
- Filutowska, Katarzyna
- Powiązania:
- https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/653587.pdf
- Data publikacji:
- 2016
- Wydawca:
- Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
- Tematy:
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identity
narrator
trespassing of boundaries
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley - Opis:
- The article focuses on the problem of the narrator’s and the author’s identity in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. According to Charles Taylor’s philosophy of subjectivity in order to have an identity we have to know what kind of good we would like to fulfil in our life. Such an orientation to the good (an orientation in moral space) and an endeavour after realizing this main value defines us as ourselves. In the paper it is argued that the pursuit of trespassing boundaries is constitutive to the narrator’s identity in the novel as it is such kind of an aim without which they could not have been themselves. It is also the key to the author’s identity. Through the medium of the stories of her male story-tellers she confronts her own demons, explores the territories of the subconscious beyond the bounds of understanding and depicts her struggle with the limitations she overcame as a woman in a patriarchal society and as a person who invented a new literary genre – science-fiction literature.
- Źródło:
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Analyses/Rereadings/Theories: A Journal Devoted to Literature, Film and Theatre; 2016, 4, 1
2353-6098 - Pojawia się w:
- Analyses/Rereadings/Theories: A Journal Devoted to Literature, Film and Theatre
- Dostawca treści:
- Biblioteka Nauki
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