Doktorcsik, Noémi (2020) Self-(de)constructions in J.M. Coetzee’s Dusklands. EGER JOURNAL OF ENGLISH STUDIES, 20. pp. 19-33. ISSN 1786-5638 (print); 2060-9159 (online)
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Abstract
The Nobel Prize-winner South African author, J. M. Coetzee in his debut novel, Dusklands (1974), allows the reader to take a look into the astonishing worlds of vulnerability and violence through the juxtaposition of two locally and temporally discrepant narratives, whose fictional world is dominated by authority. This paper attempts to explore the collapse of the individual identity of the narrators, along the prevailing literary discourses around the time of the novel’s publication, with special regard to the changing concept of the self in post-modern works and to the manners of rewriting its Cartesian concept.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Cartesian self; post-modernism; narrative; authority |
| Subjects: | P Language and Literature / nyelvészet és irodalom > PN Literature (General) / irodalom általában > PN0441 Literary History / irodalomtörténet P Language and Literature / nyelvészet és irodalom > PR English literature / angol irodalom |
| Depositing User: | Tibor Gál |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Jun 2021 12:11 |
| Last Modified: | 04 May 2023 13:30 |
| URI: | http://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/126507 |
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