The double and its doubles
transtextuality, literary polysystems, and the myth of the double
Keywords:
History of literature, Doppelgänger, Polysystem theory, TranstextualityAbstract
Among the many forms in which the doppelgänger theme has been explored in literature, the representation of consciousness is one of the most classical. In this article, we will investigate the journey of a doppelgänger that has its origins in the Spanish Golden Age with Pedro Calderón de la Barca, reaches England with Percy Shelley and Lord Byron, and arrives in the United States with Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. This trajectory, spanning two centuries, will be examined through the lens of Gérard Genette’s studies on transtextuality and Even-Zohar’s polysystem theory. By analysing transtextuality in selected passages from diaries, letters, reviews, prefaces, as well as excerpts from certain works, we will observe how some of the dynamics within literary systems take place.
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