Jak wyrazić siebie w języku? Przypadek szalonej Ofelii
How to express oneself in the language? The case of mad Ophelia

Author(s): Edyta Janiak
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Gender Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Studies of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: Ophelia;Shakespeare;feminism;Jakobson;linguistics;discourse
Summary/Abstract: Ophelia in the discourse of humanities is mostly presented as an object and mentally inferior to the protagonist of the drama — Hamlet. The feminist critics noticed that the heroine could be regarded as a symbol of femininity and actually a symbol of the inability to fully express its subjectivity due to the domination of male logos. In my article, I would like to briefly introduce the form of Ophelia’s reception and to analyze the language of the heroine by using methodological tools of linguistics (Jakobson — poetic function of language, aphasia as a language disorder). To introduce a broader perspective of my research I will also refer to cultural figure of an outsider.

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