“Prurient little Victorian ratbag”? An English Jewish Man’s Dealing with the Shadow of Thomas Hardy in Howard Jacobson’s Peeping Tom

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

“Prurient little Victorian ratbag”? An English Jewish Man’s Dealing with the Shadow of Thomas Hardy in Howard Jacobson’s Peeping Tom

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Howard Jacobson is a contemporary British Jewish writer whose autobiographically inspired novels feature protagonists who are men of Jewish background with an extensive knowledge of English literature like the author, who read English at Cambridge. The narrator of Jacobson’s second novel Peeping Tom (1984) is Barney Fugleman, a literary critic whose urban Jewish heritage alienates him from the pastoral tradition embraced by much of canonical English literature. Yet, to his shock, when Fugleman undergoes hypnosis, he is revealed to be a reincarnation of Thomas Hardy, a writer he once dismissively called “prurient little Victorian ratbag.” However, as the novel discloses some similarities between Fugleman’s and Hardy’s lives, it may be read as a reflection on English Jewish sense of belonging. While the text initially portrays Jewishness and Englishness as binary opposites, it gradually highlights that both of them are inseparable aspects of Fugleman’s bifurcated identity.

Název v anglickém jazyce

“Prurient little Victorian ratbag”? An English Jewish Man’s Dealing with the Shadow of Thomas Hardy in Howard Jacobson’s Peeping Tom

Popis výsledku anglicky

Howard Jacobson is a contemporary British Jewish writer whose autobiographically inspired novels feature protagonists who are men of Jewish background with an extensive knowledge of English literature like the author, who read English at Cambridge. The narrator of Jacobson’s second novel Peeping Tom (1984) is Barney Fugleman, a literary critic whose urban Jewish heritage alienates him from the pastoral tradition embraced by much of canonical English literature. Yet, to his shock, when Fugleman undergoes hypnosis, he is revealed to be a reincarnation of Thomas Hardy, a writer he once dismissively called “prurient little Victorian ratbag.” However, as the novel discloses some similarities between Fugleman’s and Hardy’s lives, it may be read as a reflection on English Jewish sense of belonging. While the text initially portrays Jewishness and Englishness as binary opposites, it gradually highlights that both of them are inseparable aspects of Fugleman’s bifurcated identity.

Druh

J_ost - Ostatní články v recenzovaných periodicích

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60206 - Specific literatures

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2019

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Hradec Králové Journal of Anglophone Studies

ISSN

2336-3347

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Svazek periodika

2019

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

CZ - Česká republika

Počet stran výsledku

7

Strana od-do

91-97

Kód UT WoS článku

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