Naslov
Dickens’s Gorgon and Two Cities

Autori
Jukić, Tatjana

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, neobjavljeni rad, znanstveni

Skup
European Society for the Study of English Conference 2022

Mjesto i datum
Mainz, Njemačka, 29.08.2022. - 02.09.2022

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Charles Dickens, the novel, the French Revolution, democracy, Oedipus, Antigone

Sažetak
In A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Charles Dickens describes the ultimate undoing of the Ancien Régime as the work of a Gorgon ; this suggests that, for Dickens, the Gorgon describes both the French Revolution and his novel, insofar as the French Revolution is its privileged subject. With a focus on the Gorgons’ chthonic properties and the impact of those properties on the ideation of the Greek polis, especially of democratic Athens, I propose to analyze how Dickens’s two cities entail a similar political negotiation, to which the novel is instrumental as tragedy was instrumental to fifth-century Athens. The novel, I argue, responds to this negotiation with a story that curiously reenacts the Oedipus-Antigone narrative, not least its chthonic aspect, with Paris pointing to Thebes and London to Athens.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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