Views of the double in the prose and drama of Terzakis and Kazantakis: the representation of the uncanny and the spasmodic structure of language

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Unit:
Κατεύθυνση Νεοελληνική Φιλολογία
Library of the School of Philosophy
Deposit date:
2016-06-29
Year:
2016
Author:
Alexopoulou Anna
Supervisors info:
Θανάσης Αγάθος, Eπίκουρος Καθηγητής Νεοελληνικής Φιλολογίας, Τμήμα Φιλολογίας, Φιλοσοφική Σχολή ΕΚΠΑ
Λητώ Ιωακειμίδου, Eπίκουρη Καθηγήτρια Νεοελληνικής Φιλολογίας, Τμήμα Φιλολογίας, Φιλοσοφική Σχολή ΕΚΠΑ
Ερασμία Σταυροπούλου, Καθηγήτρια Νεοελληνικής Φιλολογίας, Τμήμα Φιλολογίας, Φιλοσοφική Σχολή ΕΚΠΑ
Original Title:
Όψεις του Σωσία στην πεζογραφία και τη δραματουργία του Αγ. Τερζάκη και του Ν. Καζαντζάκη : η αναπαράσταση του ανοίκειου και η σπασμωδική δομή του λόγου
Languages:
Greek
Translated title:
Views of the double in the prose and drama of Terzakis and Kazantakis: the representation of the uncanny and the spasmodic structure of language
Summary:
This essay investigates the theme of the double, in Kazantzakis's and Terzakis's writing, in contemplation of its expression of the divided conscience of the characters, through the analysis of the structure of spasmodic speech, the shattered desire and the desensitized body. This theme is captured in the psychoanalytical concept of the splitting of the ego, which is expressed either in the form of hallucinations, with the freudian feeling of uncanny prevailing, or in the form of paranoid persecutory delusions. Using the linguistic works of Jakobson and the psychoanalytical theroy of Lacan about the structure of delirium and its reflection on speech, we concluded that what remains in moments of pure xenopathy, is an ''out of meaning'':in the end the meaning is left floating and unfinished, as the subject is unable to be represented by speech- to the extent that especially in lunacy, subjects do not dwell in language, but are "dwelled by it''-in this situation the subjects were spoken subjects and not speaking subjects.Furthermore, utilizing Bakhtin's theory of polyphony and Genette's theory of narratology, the intense inner dialogue of the voices was decoded, structured in a manner that express the dichotomized consciousness of the hero, resulting in a continuous conflict of diphonic dialogue, that takes place inside consciousness. The self-referential structure of language resides in the deperdonalization of personnal speech, that results in the loss of coherent speech, inasmuch as the words are seceded from things. This internalization of language brings about a void of meaning without dialectic. The core of speech is inert, to the point that any dialectic recontruction is absent. The section of said works is intrinsic to their conflict with the traditional doctrine of genre purity. Their hybrid preform is inherent to the modernistic structure which coexists with a merge of the aforementioned heteroclitical elements in a thematology of double nature.
Main subject category:
Byzantine and Modern Greek literature
Keywords:
double, Freud, Lacan, Terzakis, Kazantzakis
Index:
No
Number of index pages:
0
Contains images:
No
Number of references:
330
Number of pages:
96
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