Stevenson’s Aesthetics of Entanglement and Non-Disjunction in The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

• Authors: Bratislav Milošević
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper engages with Stevenson’s novel The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde from the perspective of essential duality embedded in every one’s nature: it explicates the entangling nature of binaries and the aesthetics of non-disjunction of the binary self/Other as embodied in the figures of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde respectively. By the novel’s end, the two aspects, the Jekyllean and the Hydean, are perceived not only as “innately responsive and relational”[1](Schapiro 1995: 128) to each other but also as entangled and non-disjunctive within the synthesizing model of the Hegelian dialectic.[1] In her book Literature and the Relational Self Barbara Ann Schapiro argues that individual human beings are fundamentally “responsive and relational” (Schapiro 1995: 128). Accommodating her insightful argument on the interpersonal level, I argue that it can likewise be applied on the intrapersonal level – the two opposing aspects of every one’s nature are not only responsive but also relational. Put differently, the Jekyllean aspect and the Hydean aspect are mutually ‘responsive and relational’ in a complex, entangling, and intertwining way.

DE

Der Band enthält die Abstracts ausschließlich in englischer Sprache.

FR

Le numéro contient uniquement les résumés en anglais.

RU

Том содержит аннотацию только на английском языке.

Keywords

EN

self; binaries; entanglement; non-disjunction; duality; bothness

DE

selbst; Binaritäten; Verwickelung; Non-Disjunction; Dualität; Gegenseitigkeit

FR

: moi; binarités; enchevêtrement; non-disjonction; dualité; le double

RU

личность; бинаризм; запутанность; разобщение; дуализм; ботность

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej
• Journal: Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 40
• Issue: 1

Dates

published

2016

online

2016-07-27

Contributors

author

Bratislav Milošević

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Identifiers

DOI

10.17951/lsmll.2016.40.1.36