Harold’s Mobility as a Growth of Negativity: Byron’s Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage and Nietzsche’s Untimely Meditations
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Jazyk výsledku
angličtina
Název v původním jazyce
Harold’s Mobility as a Growth of Negativity: Byron’s Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage and Nietzsche’s Untimely Meditations
Popis výsledku v původním jazyce
The poem "To Inez," Harold's "unpremeditated lay" towards the close of Canto I of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, can be interpreted as an expression of the growing negativity of the hero, whom in the Preface to Canto I and II Byron calls "[a] fictitious character [...] introduced for the sake of giving some connexion to the piece." Already in the first two cantos it becomes evident that Harold is a mere structural device used to increase tension between the poem's descriptive and static features and the dynamic of the narrator's volatile, ever-changing mind. Harold's negativity is no mere outcome of sensuous over-satiation and fear of reflection. It may have more serious implications, which can be understood in relation to Nietzsche's early philosophy, namely in the second essay of his Untimely Meditations, "On the Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life" ("Vom Nutzen und Nachteil der Historie für das Leben," 1874). Nietzsche understands history and its contemporary consciousness as results of a decline of culture, when reactive forces (prompted by the "cunning and historically cultivated egotism" of the state, science, self-seekers and aesthetes) assume control and start to manipulate history for their own purposes. Resulting "historical knowledge" then shapes "weak individuals" whose memory has lost its significance. In the light of Nietzsche's observations, Harold's attitude voiced in "To Inez" can be interpreted as an expression of resistance against traditional reflections of history. The "retrospection curst," revealing an oppressive destiny of an Ahasuerus-like fugitive in "many a clime," travelling to "zones more and more remote," can be interpreted as the last stage of the disintegration of the Enlightenment perspective typical of the previous topographical poems, whose influence is evident throughout Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Can we say that the representation of Harold's doomed pilgrimage concluded by the hero's spectral fading away "into Destruction's mass" anticipates Nietzsche's critique of the "uses and disadvantages of history for life"?
Název v anglickém jazyce
Harold’s Mobility as a Growth of Negativity: Byron’s Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage and Nietzsche’s Untimely Meditations
Popis výsledku anglicky
The poem "To Inez," Harold's "unpremeditated lay" towards the close of Canto I of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, can be interpreted as an expression of the growing negativity of the hero, whom in the Preface to Canto I and II Byron calls "[a] fictitious character [...] introduced for the sake of giving some connexion to the piece." Already in the first two cantos it becomes evident that Harold is a mere structural device used to increase tension between the poem's descriptive and static features and the dynamic of the narrator's volatile, ever-changing mind. Harold's negativity is no mere outcome of sensuous over-satiation and fear of reflection. It may have more serious implications, which can be understood in relation to Nietzsche's early philosophy, namely in the second essay of his Untimely Meditations, "On the Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life" ("Vom Nutzen und Nachteil der Historie für das Leben," 1874). Nietzsche understands history and its contemporary consciousness as results of a decline of culture, when reactive forces (prompted by the "cunning and historically cultivated egotism" of the state, science, self-seekers and aesthetes) assume control and start to manipulate history for their own purposes. Resulting "historical knowledge" then shapes "weak individuals" whose memory has lost its significance. In the light of Nietzsche's observations, Harold's attitude voiced in "To Inez" can be interpreted as an expression of resistance against traditional reflections of history. The "retrospection curst," revealing an oppressive destiny of an Ahasuerus-like fugitive in "many a clime," travelling to "zones more and more remote," can be interpreted as the last stage of the disintegration of the Enlightenment perspective typical of the previous topographical poems, whose influence is evident throughout Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Can we say that the representation of Harold's doomed pilgrimage concluded by the hero's spectral fading away "into Destruction's mass" anticipates Nietzsche's critique of the "uses and disadvantages of history for life"?
Klasifikace
Druh
J<sub>imp</sub> - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science
CEP obor
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OECD FORD obor
60205 - Literary theory
Návaznosti výsledku
Projekt
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Návaznosti
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Ostatní
Rok uplatnění
2025
Kód důvěrnosti údajů
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Údaje specifické pro druh výsledku
Název periodika
Études Anglaises
ISSN
0014-195X
e-ISSN
1965-0159
Svazek periodika
77
Číslo periodika v rámci svazku
4
Stát vydavatele periodika
FR - Francouzská republika
Počet stran výsledku
11
Strana od-do
433-443
Kód UT WoS článku
001600718700004
EID výsledku v databázi Scopus
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