O mito do duplo em retratos
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2012-12-14
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Universidade Federal de Goiás
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The myth of the double is part of a set of the most antique human myths which
permeate man`s imaginary since his own existence. It has as its main manifestations the
cases of persons resembling one another, identical twins, the fact that someone sees
himself in another one, the duality. The term used to designate the double, coined by
German writer Jean-Paul Richter, is doppelgänger, and it means the one who walks by
the side or close by, the travelling companion or fellow traveler. It has to do with one‘s
experience of him/her in alterity or otherness. Some examples of occurrences of the
myth of the double in literatures can be, among other: Shakespeare‘s A Comedy of
Errors, Plato`s The Banquet, Robert Louis Stevenson‘s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Mary
Shelley‘s Frankenstein, Dostoyevsky‘s The Double. This thesis has as the object of its
analysis the recurrence (and reoccurrence) of the myth of the double in literature and in
order to do that it concentrates on the examination of four works which are similar
through the manifestation of the double in portraits. Three of them are short stories and
the last one is a novel: Nathaniel Hawthorne‘s ―The Prophetic Pictures,‖ Edgar Allan
Poe‘s ―The Oval Portrait,‖ Nikolai Gogol‘s ―The Portrait [Портрет],‖ and Oscar Wilde‘s
The Picture of Dorian Gray. The theoretical support for the thesis concentrates on a
larger use or presence of the idea of the double, as in the Romanticism, and in the
development of some themes dear to the 19th Century, such as the fragmentation of the
self, the new notions of myth, the idea of the double and specifically the myth of the
double. The main theoreticians or theorists used where, among others, are Sigmund
Freud, Otto Rank, Arnold Hauser, Anatol Rosenfeld, J. Guinsburg, and Jean-Pierre
Vernant.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne , Edgar Allan Poe , Nikolai Gogol , Oscar Wilde , Mito , Duplo , Doppelgänger , Retrato , Myth , The double , Portrait
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CESARO, Patrícia Souza Silva. O mito do duplo em retratos. 2012. 120 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Letras e Linguística) - Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, 2012.