Denial and Desire: The Traps of Romantic Nihilism in Mary Shelley´s Frankenstein

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Denial and Desire: The Traps of Romantic Nihilism in Mary Shelley´s Frankenstein

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The paper attempts to analyse Mary Shelley´s famous Gothic novel with respect to her portrayal of the Romantic / Byronic hero and the rejection of the higher authority in the isolated search for self-assertion. Drawing on Slocombe´s concept of the Romantic / Nihilistic sublime, the analysis is devoted to the confrontation with the father principle in the variety of contexts, involving both denial / rejection and desire. Paradoxically, as the frame story suggests, it is in the willingness to submit to a higher authority (the Kantian faculty of reason) that the individual´s freedom can be achieved. In this respect, Mary Shelley´s “Modern Prometheus” points at the reversed side of G.G. Byron´s and P.B. Shelley´s titanic imagery, at the “absent centre of the self” (Weiskel), which becomes a psychological source of the daemonic (in other words, excess and the loss of identity, leading to self-destruction). Accordingly, Romantic nihilism is replaced by the Kantian moral concept of the sublime.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Denial and Desire: The Traps of Romantic Nihilism in Mary Shelley´s Frankenstein

Popis výsledku anglicky

The paper attempts to analyse Mary Shelley´s famous Gothic novel with respect to her portrayal of the Romantic / Byronic hero and the rejection of the higher authority in the isolated search for self-assertion. Drawing on Slocombe´s concept of the Romantic / Nihilistic sublime, the analysis is devoted to the confrontation with the father principle in the variety of contexts, involving both denial / rejection and desire. Paradoxically, as the frame story suggests, it is in the willingness to submit to a higher authority (the Kantian faculty of reason) that the individual´s freedom can be achieved. In this respect, Mary Shelley´s “Modern Prometheus” points at the reversed side of G.G. Byron´s and P.B. Shelley´s titanic imagery, at the “absent centre of the self” (Weiskel), which becomes a psychological source of the daemonic (in other words, excess and the loss of identity, leading to self-destruction). Accordingly, Romantic nihilism is replaced by the Kantian moral concept of the sublime.

Druh

J_ost - Ostatní články v recenzovaných periodicích

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60204 - General literature studies

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2024

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Lingua viva

ISSN

1801-1489

e-ISSN

2336-8136

Svazek periodika

XX

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

38

Stát vydavatele periodika

CZ - Česká republika

Počet stran výsledku

7

Strana od-do

18-24

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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