Ophelia Antigonized: A Pre-Raphaelite Hamlet for Industrial Modernity

Znanstveni rad - Ostalo

• Autor: Tatjana Jukić
• Autorova ustanova: Sveučilište u Zagrebu; Filozofski fakultet; (Odsjek za anglistiku)
• Znanstveno / umjetničko područje, polje i grana: HUMANISTIČKE ZNANOSTI; Interdisciplinarne humanističke znanosti

Sažetak (engleski)

Understanding modernity seems to be inflected in the narrative conditions of Hamlet: Hamlet may be to modernity what the story of Oedipus is to psychoanalysis, a specimen story in which the intellectual constitution of modernity is decided. In this essay I analyze how industrial modernity finds its articulation in Hamlet, especially in the positions where Hamlet is claimed for realism; realism is taken to mean not a poetics so much as an apparatus instrumental to negotiating the modern condition in the nineteenth century. With a focus on John Everett Millais’s Ophelia (1851–2), I discuss how Ophelia replaces Hamlet as a figure where realism is negotiated in Victorian modernity, also as a figure where modern psychopolitics, with its investment in mourning, finds its foothold in the world of the Industrial Revolution. Lastly, I argue that Ophelia may be where the unresolved narrative conditions of Antigone are retained in Hamlet, along with the political concerns implicit to Antigone’s mourning.

• Ključne riječi (engleski): industrial modernity; Hamlet; Ophelia; realism; the Pre-Raphaelites; Antigone
• Jezik: engleski
• Vrsta publikacije: Znanstveni rad - Ostalo
• Status objave: Objavljen
• Vrsta recenzije: Recenziran - međunarodna recenzija
• Verzija publikacije: Objavljena verzija rada (izdavačev PDF)
• Naslov časopisa: Working Papers in American Studies. Vol. 4. Transformation: Nature and Economy in Modern English and American Culture
• Brojčani podaci: vol. 4, str. 5-44
• e-ISSN: 1849-6180
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.17234/WPAS.2020.2
• URN:NBN: urn:nbn:hr:131:752019
• Datum objave publikacije: 2020
• Skup: Naziv: Transformation: Nature and Economy in Modern English and American Culture; Lokacija: Zagreb, Hrvatska; Organizator: Hrvatsko udruženje za američke studije, Hrvatsko društvo za anglističke studije; Datum početka: 2019-09-24; Datum završetka: 2019-09-24
• URL dokumenta: http://www.huams.hr/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/wpas_v4_huams_2020.pdf
• Vrsta resursa: Tekst
• Prava pristupa: Otvoreni pristup
• Datum i vrijeme pohrane: 2021-03-10 07:45:38