Narratives on the Body Session Three. Agenda The Tradition – 19th Century Fiction The...

Narratives on the Body

Session Three

Agenda

The Tradition – 19th Century Fiction The Counter-Tradition – Woolf and

Winterson

The Tradition – 19th Century Fiction Conan Doyle, ”The Cardboard Box” Body as narrative subject and object,

knower and known Looking and knowing (scopophilia and

epistemophilia) – the power of the male gaze

Possibilities - the physical, phenomenal world

Limitations - the metaphysical, transcendental world

Contrast: Wordsworth, ”A Character”

The Tradition – 19th Century Fiction: research topic for (mini) project

”Seeing and knowing in Conan Doyle’s short story ’The Cardboard Box’”

[Holmes’ gaze penetrates the secret lives of men and women as Watson’s narration demonstrates.

The Tradition – 19th Century Fiction

R.L. Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Body as narrative object Storying the (monstrous) body Narrative indirectness, detour,

fetishism

The Tradition – 19th Century Fiction: research topic for (mini) project

”Split identities: R.L. Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”

[The tale concerns not only the split identity of Dr. Jekyll and his Doppelgänger. Other characters are split as well. Mr. Enfield, for instance, manifests a split between action and description. Capable of apprehending Mr. Hyde for his offence against the girl and succeeding in holding him financially accountable to the girl’s parents, he fails in producing an adequate outline of him, nevertheless. This descriptive failure is mirrored by the narrative – the discourse fails to make the monstrous body present.]

The Counter-Tradition

The 19th Century: Seeing vs. Listening Mary Shelly, Frankenstein The frame structure

Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography

Genre:

Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography

Genre: Biography

Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography

Genre: Biography Novel

Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography

Genre: Biography – non-fiction Novel – fiction

Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography

The masque (pp. 95-98)

Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography

Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography