FROM “DOVER BEACH” TO “JAKARTA”. A RE-EXAMINATION OF THE ARNOLDIAN CHOICE THROUGH AN INTERTEXTUAL EXERCISE
FROM “DOVER BEACH” TO “JAKARTA”. A RE-EXAMINATION OF THE ARNOLDIAN CHOICE THROUGH AN INTERTEXTUAL EXERCISE

Summary/Abstract: From “Dover Beach” to “Jakarta”. A Re-Examination of the Arnoldian Choice through an Intertextual Exercise. By juxtaposing Matthew Arnold’s emblematic poem to texts by Anthony Hecht and Alice Munro, this paper aims at providing a review of some fundamental traits of the Victorian thinker’s “philosophy of pessimism” (“choice”, “renouncement”, “self-effacement”), questioning, at the same time, the social and sexual stereotypes that both unite and differentiate the respective pieces.

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