- Tytuł:
- Alan Hollinghurst’s The Folding Star: A Tale of Psychopathology in a Neo-Romantic Setting
- Autorzy:
- Sroczyński, Marcin
- Powiązania:
- https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/888744.pdf
- Data publikacji:
- 2016
- Wydawca:
- Uniwersytet Warszawski. Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
- Tematy:
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Alan Hollinghurst
homosexuality
psychoanalysis
modernism
narcissism
sadism
masochism
melancholia - Opis:
- Alan Hollinghurst’s 1994 novel The Folding Star tells the story of a gay man who develops an obsessive fascination with his seventeen-year-old student. The first-person narrative focuses on the protagonist’s emotional suffering: he gradually succumbs to masochistic and sadistic impulses and nurtures a melancholic condition which eventually leads to his failure and the permanent loss of his object of desire. The aim of this article is to read Hollinghurst’s novel as a study of an emotional disorder, using the conceptual tools provided by psychoanalysis, a method born at the turn of the 19th and 20th century. The Folding Star recreates a Fin de siècle aura, and exploits the then established links between homosexuality, psychopathology, oversensitivity and aestheticism. With this novel, Hollinghurst investigates and mocks conventions and stereotypes related both to modernism and to homosexuality.
- Źródło:
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Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies; 2016, 25/1; 141-154
0860-5734 - Pojawia się w:
- Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies
- Dostawca treści:
- Biblioteka Nauki
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