Beyond the Visible: Subversive Imagination in the Fiction of the American Renaissance
Beyond the Visible: Subversive Imagination in the Fiction of the American Renaissance
Author(s): Teodor MateocSubject(s): Studies of Literature, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Editura Universitatii din Oradea
Keywords: Identity; otherness; alienation; selfhood; epistemology; meaning; rhetoric; E. A. Poe; Hermann Melville;
Summary/Abstract: My article intends to look at two instances of dissolution of identity, an outer-directed one, illustrated by E. A. Poe’s ‘The Man of the Crowd’ and an inner-directed one, as embodied by Hermann Melville’s hero in ‘Bartleby, the Scrivener’. I hold that, in both cases, what is rejected is functionalist and pragmatic view of identity in favour of an existential, ontological assertion of it.
Journal: Confluenţe. Texts and Contexts Reloaded
- Issue Year: 2016
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 156-162
- Page Count: 7
- Language: English