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Surprised by Death, or How Andrew Marvell’s Mower Confronts Death in Arcadia

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Łączyńska K.

Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies

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2016

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issue 25/1

27-34

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Death’s crude statement: “Et in Arcadia ego,” does not spring surprise on us, as it is a recognizable pastoral convention. But for the naïve and innocent inhabitant of any type of literary Arcadia this is a moment of wonder. Surprised by Death, the coarse Mower of Andrew Marvell’s pastoral poems struggles with the unfamiliar. Unaware of the world of urbane manners and unschooled in the ars moriendi, he translates the new, puzzling and painful experience into the familiar concepts of his everyday labours. His mind displaced, he looks for the confirmation of his identity in the mirror of his scythe, and when the latter accidentally cuts into his own ankle, the moment of ostensibly naïve anagnorisis of the natural man turns into the revelation of the conventional symbol. “Death, thou art a mower too,” concludes the clown in a way that may sound simple-minded, but at the same time, has an obvious, though on his part unconscious, reference to a well-known cultural myth. The aim of this paper is to trace the ways Marvellian pastoral personae cope with the wonder of Death by digesting the unfamiliar into the conventional and the aesthetic.

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Narcisse et la photographie. De l’objectivation à l’objectivité

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Dziub N.

Quêtes littéraires

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2015

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issue 5

45-54

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Baudelaire blamed the bourgeois society and its photographic narcissism which leads to a perversion of the mythical posture and to a loss of consciousness of the ontological dissimilarity between reality and its image. That is why literature has to develop the imagination of the photographic image, which is both useful and magical, both referential and wondrous. Writers of the romantic era may disdain or admire photography, but they all experience the photographic objectivity and thus develop an antidote to the vain objectification of the collective Narcissus.

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On the combination of the Ophelian and the narcissistic in the poetry of Georges Rodenbach

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Malinowski W. M., Sobierajska A.

Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature

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2018

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vol. 42

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issue 3

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Der Band enthält die Abstracts ausschließlich in englischer Sprache.

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The paper examines a special place that the characters of Ophelia and Narcissus, so closely connected with the motif of water, occupy in the poetic imaginarium of George Rodenbach. What we deal with here is an unhealthy obsession within which two characters of literature and mythology, unhappily in love, are presented as two alter egos of the poet himself. An endless sequence of images associating water with death reveals the fascination and trepidation of the symbolist, who uses the Opheliac depths and Narcissus’s water mirror as a reflection of different states of his soul.

FR

The paper examines a special place that the characters of Ophelia and Narcissus, so closely connected with the motif of water, occupy in the poetic imaginarium of George Rodenbach. What we deal with here is an unhealthy obsession within which two characters of literature and mythology, unhappily in love, are presented as two alter egos of the poet himself. An endless sequence of images associating water with death reveals the fascination and trepidation of the symbolist, who uses the Opheliac depths and Narcissus’s water mirror as a reflection of different states of his soul.

RU

Том содержит аннотацию только на английском языке.

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Le mythe de Narcisse dans la littérature « fin de siècle » : autour des limites de l’intertextualité

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Kučerová M.

Svět literatury – Časopis pro novodobé literatury (World of Literature – Journal for Modern Literatures)

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2015

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vol. Special Issue: Le monde de la litérrature

167-173

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The author of the article deals with specific features of literary myth concerning intertextuality, and mainly the issue of identification of hypotext in literary texts rewriting the mythological narrative. Providing works of the three writers as an example — André Gide, Jean Lorrain, Paul Valéry — the author points out the French literature tendency « fin de siècle » to ambiguous oscillation between the creation of the myth itself and its interpretation beyond the scope of one comprehensive artistic discourse.

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The Gender Metamorphosis of Narcissus. Salvador Dalí: Metamorphosis of Narcissus

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Kalnická Z.

Estetyka i Krytyka

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2016

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issue 2(41)

51-76

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This contribution is devoted to an interpretation of the artwork, from a gender point of view, Metamorphosis of Narcissus by Salvador Dalí. Dalí’s painting is compared with the Narcissus stories to be found in antiquity, particularly in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, with his stress on the beauty of a young boy, and the commensurate concepts of seeing and mirroring. The gender associations of narcissism and their changes are well-documented in the history of art (Caravaggio, Edward Burne-Jones) and in different concepts of narcissism (Sigmund Freud, Gaston Bachelard, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Julia Kristeva). The author focuses on the gender aspects of surrealism, keying in especially to the concept of Anima and Animus (Carl Gustav Jung). Dalí’s work is analyzed in terms of associating Narcissus not merely with seeing and mirroring but also with touching and metamorphosis, emphasizing his remarkable skill at transgressing gender divisions in his visionary leap towards androgyny.

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„Trocha jen vody nás dělí!“ O ubíhání, úběžníku, o navigaci

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Kordík P.

Slovo a smysl - Word & Sense

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2018

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vol. 15

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issue 29

67-86

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The topic of our deliberation is resonance as an issue of understanding ourselves and the world, — an understanding that is undoubtedly related to speech. Resonance, as an issue, opened by senses in the world; an issue opening for senses and in the world; resonance as a matter of senses, whose sensorium commune is the body: becoming of the body (the body-becoming), therefore always a question of identity and difference (identifying and identified, marking and marked, differentiating and differentiated). The subject of our deliberation is the undulation that shapes cannot be represented by the shape of the wave or by the sum of individual shapes of the waves (any confirmation, reassuring of My-self in a shape or by a shape is always seriously threatened by the disintegration of Me). So, if Eastern thought says “the shape is empty”, besides the philosopher of being and existence, besides the phenomenologist, besides the metaphysician, besides the philosopher of the body, besides the philosopher of significance, in our reflection we also recognize the philosopher of emptiness.

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1 Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies

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1 Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature

1 Quêtes littéraires

1 Slovo a smysl - Word & Sense

1 Svět literatury – Časopis pro novodobé literatury (World of Literature – Journal for Modern Literatures)

1 Dziub N.

1 Kalnická Z.

1 Kordík P.

1 Kučerová M.

1 Malinowski W. M.

1 Sobierajska A.

1 Łączyńska K.

2 2018