Deux Narcisse, miroirs des fins: essai d’interprétation hégélien

• Authors: Ébert-Zeminová Catherine

Title variants

EN

NARCISSES, MIRRORS OF THE ENDS : ATTEMPT OF HEGELIAN READING

• Languages of publication: FR

Abstracts

EN

This paper attempts to cross-read the End of Art as it is conceptualized by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, and André Gide’s and Jean Lorrain’s versions of the myth of Narcissus. The most relevant mythemes such as beauty, self-love, duplication, “specularity” and death are apprehended in their recovery by fin-de-siècle aesthetics. The hermeneutic back-and-forth movement between the two texts assesses the structural symbols carrying various models of the evolution of art and formulates what Hegel could have possibly understood by this concept. The results of our interpretation are then related to certain phenomena of the history of art, and particularly of literature in the 20th century.

Keywords

FR

Esthétique; littérature française; symbolisme et décadence; mythe; dédoublement; spécularité; Fin de l’art; G. W. F. Hegel; A. Gide; J. Lorrain; Narcisse et narcissisme

EN

Aesthetics; French Literature; Symbolism and Decadence; Myth; Duplication; Specularity; End of Art; G. W. F. Hegel; A. Gide; J. Lorrain; Narcisse and Narcissism

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Svět literatury – Časopis pro novodobé literatury (World of Literature – Journal for Modern Literatures)
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 32
• Issue: Special Issue
• Pages: 55-67

Contributors

author

Ébert-Zeminová Catherine

• Université Charles, Prague