Otherness (Alternity/ the other), Dispense di Letteratura Inglese

Scarica Otherness (Alternity/ the other) e più Dispense in PDF di Letteratura Inglese solo su Docsity! OTHERNESS -What does OTHERNESS consist of?(Alternity/ the other) • RACIAL = ethnic • SOCIO-CULTURAL = something/someone different. How our society is based on specific norms, cods. Predjudice. • PSYCHOLOGICAL = DOUBLE (il DOPPIO, la proiezione del proprio IO. Ex. Frankestein) - GENERAL MEANING • The quality or state of existence of being/feeling other (different) from established norms, codes and social groups. Ulysses (by Tennyson) =When he's back to Itaca, he feel OTHER, ALIENATED from that world. Why? Because he is changed. Ha un senso di non appartenenza. Itaca is stock: same norms, same cods. • Societal othering* according to prescribed concept of normality e.g. Wordsworth’s Blind Beggar ( *Othering= to turn into another, also a verb 'to other') OTHER EXAMPLES: Coleridge's poem: Geraldine= mysterious woman who enstablished a mysterious relationship with the protagonist, Christabel. It's the Romantic period, when women had to reflect some cods but she is a FEMME FATAL, she is different and she doesen't respect them. Hogg's poem: Robert= he realises his mental illness. He feel lonely and insulated (like creature in 'Frankestein') Sometimes Otherness is confronted by RACIAL, ETHNIC and CULTURAL aspects which include MEETINGS/ CONFLICT between races- ethnic groups (different langueges, cultures. EX. In 'Dracula' there's a clash between east and owest) It happened with other characters as well: - Prospero vs. Caliban& Ariel (Shakespeare) -The English vs. Oroonoko (Behn) -Jane/Rochester vs. Antoinette (Rhys) PSYCHOLOGICAL – PSYCHOANALYTIC Lancan: the other (autre) and the Other (Grand autre) autre= [NOT REALLY OTHER]. A projection of ourself. A body on a cover of a magazine is a symbol, a shadow of ourself. Image of our concious. Grand autre= [REALLY OTHER] something which is based on specific values. It referes to the system of norms, values, ideologies. Someone feel totally alienated, infact there's no