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NECROPHELIA AND THE STRANGE CASE OF AFTERLIFE

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Sosnowska M.
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia
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2013
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vol. 48
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issue 2-3
103-123
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Drawing on Allan Edgar Poe’s provocative statement that “The death ... of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetic topic in the world” (1951: 369), I will focus on the pivotal role of Shakespeare’s Ophelia in attesting to this assertion. Ophelia’s drowning is probably the most recognizable female death depicted by Shakespeare. Dating back to Gertrude’s “reported version” of the drowning, representations of Ophelia’s eroticized death have occupied the minds of Western artists and writers. Their necrOphelian fantasies materialized as numerous paintings, photographs and literary texts. It seems that Ophelia’s floating dead body is also at the core of postmodern thanatophiliac imagination, taking shape in the form of conventionalized representations, such as: video scenes available on YouTube, amateur photographs in bathtubs posted on photo sharing sites, reproductions and remakes of classical paintings (e.g. John Everett Millais), and contemporary art exhibitions in museums. These references will demonstrate that new cyber story - digital afterlife - is being built around the figure of Shakespearean Ophelia, unearthing the sexual attraction of the lifeless female body.
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To See and Hear Like Ophelia, or How Not to Take Leave of One’s Senses: Representations of the Madwoman in Youtube Culture

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Sosnowska M.
Gender Studies
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2012
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vol. 11
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issue Supplement
12-25
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Ophelia, fated to insanity, has attracted incomparably more interest than any other Shakespearean heroine. As an archetype of a madwoman Ophelia has been in the limelight for a wide range of supporters and adversaries: literary critics, theatre and film directors, actors and actresses, psychiatrists, philosophers, writers, poets, painters, photographers, feminist and gender revolutionists, and ordinary people, especially women who want to act the story of her losing her senses. The last-mentioned category appear to be fulfilling their dreams of becoming madwomen by posing as lunatic Ophelia and being filmed. The destiny of these amateur films is to be posted on YouTube.
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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
DE
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.
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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. 
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Том содержит аннотацию только на английском языке.
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The Figure of Ophelia in Expressionist Poetry: German and Czech Comparison

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Malý R.
Porównania
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2020
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vol. 27
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issue 2
197-217
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Artykuł dotyczy interpretacji postaci Ofelii w czeskiej poezji współczesnej w porównaniu z poezją europejskiego ekspresjonizmu. Estetyka obrazu śmierci Ofelii z dramatu Hamlet Szekspira wpłynęła na literaturę tego okresu i ją zainspirowała. Wpływ ten wyraziście odzwierciedlił się w poezji ekspresjonizmu niemieckiego, szczególnie w twórczości Georga Heyma, Gottfrieda Benna i Georga Trakla. Czescy poeci, którzy prezentowali to zjawisko w duchu ekspresjonizmu, to Jan Skácel, Holan i Jiří Orten. Studium rozpatruje tę twórczość z punktu widzenia kompleksu Ofelii zdefiniowanego przez Gastona Bachelarda.
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The study deals with the rendition of the figure of Ophelia in Czech modern poetry in comparison with the poetry of European Expressionism. The image of Ophelia’s aesthetic death from Shakespeare’s drama Hamlet has influenced and inspired a whole range of artworks. It strongly reverberated in German Expressionist poetry, especially that by Georg Heym, Gottfried Benn and Georg Trakl. The Czech poets who approached this topic in the spirit of Expressionism include Jan Skácel, Vladimír Holan and Jiří Orten. The study further addresses these works in the light of the Ophelia complex as defined by Bachelard.
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Motiv utonulé dívky v poezii německého expresionismu

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Malý R.
Svět literatury – Časopis pro novodobé literatury (World of Literature – Journal for Modern Literatures)
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2016
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vol. 54
75-89
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The motif of a beautiful drowned girl or, generally, a young woman related to the water environment has appeared in European art since antiquity. The crucial turning point in the approach to the figure of a girl tragically related to the water element came with Shakespeare’s Hamlet: it features the strong female character of Hamlet’s lover Ophelia, who goes mad and tragically drowns after the Prince’s refusal. Her death became a popular subject in the field of fine arts and literature, with its popularity culminating in emotionally charged eras; i.e. Romanticism and, later,Symbolism and Decadence. J. A. Rimbaud’s poem Ophelia had a far-reaching influence on German poetry where the motif of a drowned girl became a frequent subject. This relationship was initiated by the translation of Rimbaud’s poems into German by Karl Klammer. The paper examines his influence on the poems of the expressionists Georg Heym, Georg Trakl, and Gottfried Benn.
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Tři podoby Ofélie v poezii Vladimíra Holana

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Malý R.
Česká literatura (Czech Literature)
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2018
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vol. 66
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issue 4
489-503
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