“NO MORE YIELDING BUT A DREAM”: POLITICS OF FICTION AS TROMPE-L’OEIL IN THE TEMPEST AND HAG-SEED
“NO MORE YIELDING BUT A DREAM”: POLITICS OF FICTION AS TROMPE-L’OEIL IN THE TEMPEST AND HAG-SEED
Author(s): Ayşegül ErnurSubject(s): Politics, Studies of Literature, Other Language Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Editura Universităţii de Vest din Timişoara / Diacritic Timisoara
Keywords: Hag-Seed; trompe-l’oeil; the uncanny; The Tempest; Shakespeare;
Summary/Abstract: The two Prospero(s) of this pair of literary texts authorize the history, (re)stage the tempest, play chess with the characters: by mirroring, repeating and eventually decentering, the play and the rewriting’s cyclical mechanism undermine their cores in terms of the legitimacy of power. By taking the main characters of both literary texts as prominent ruler figures, the present study aims to explore the ways in which they alter the perception of reality through a consistent mirror effect, with references to the uncanny ‘politics’ and Belsey’s appropriation of trompe-l’oeil to literary studies
Journal: B.A.S. British and American Studies
- Issue Year: 28/2022
- Issue No: 28
- Page Range: 9-19
- Page Count: 11
- Language: English