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The Narrator’s Identity and the Pursuit of Trespassing Boundaries in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

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Filutowska K., University of Warsaw, Dr. Katarzyna Filutowska is a philosopher r. i. t. I. o. P.

Analyses/Rereadings/Theories: A Journal Devoted to Literature, Film and Theatre

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2016

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vol. 4

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issue 1

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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.

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HÖLDERLIN, OR A MYTH OF A MAD POET. SOME REMARKS ON RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CREATIVITY AND MENTAL ILLNESS (Hölderlin czyli mit poety szalonego. Kilka uwag na temat relacji miedzy twórczoscia a choroba psychiczna)

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Filutowska K.

Przegląd Filozoficzno-Literacki

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2010

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vol. 9

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issue 3(28)

171-205

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The article concerns a problem of Hölderlin's putative madness and its potential influence on his work. The auhoress discusses Jaspers' and Adorno's views on this theme. She refers also indirectly to Heidegger's opinions and discusses comparatively K.H. Bohrer's article devoted to Nietzsche's madness. Her aim is to show an objective difficulty of proving a thesis received by Jaspers that Hölderlin's work is a clear testimony of his increasing mental disease. She confronts his poetry with Schelling's conception of a creative process and a mythological consciousness. She refers also to Jung's analysis of Miss Miller's case as a 'school example of a schizophrenia'. She would like to show that Hölderlin had a creative and mythological consciousness because he was a poet or an artist but this is not equal to a stronger thesis that his consciousness was totally dominated by such kind of a process and that he lost all of his poetical skills, his individuality and became a really mad person.

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Pluralizm aletyczny Lyncha, czyli o wartości prawdy w czasie postprawdy (Recenzja książki: Michael Patrick Lynch, Prawda i życie. Dlaczego prawda jest ważna, tłum. Dawid Misztal, seria „Kim jest Człowiek?”, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Łódź 2020, s. 491)

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Filutowska K.

Edukacja Filozoficzna

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2022

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issue 73

233-240

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The Narrator’s Identity and the Pursuit of Trespassing Boundaries in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

HÖLDERLIN, OR A MYTH OF A MAD POET. SOME REMARKS ON RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CREATIVITY AND MENTAL ILLNESS (Hölderlin czyli mit poety szalonego. Kilka uwag na temat relacji miedzy twórczoscia a choroba psychiczna)

Pluralizm aletyczny Lyncha, czyli o wartości prawdy w czasie postprawdy (Recenzja książki: Michael Patrick Lynch, Prawda i życie. Dlaczego prawda jest ważna, tłum. Dawid Misztal, seria „Kim jest Człowiek?”, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Łódź 2020, s. 491)