Stevenson’s Aesthetics of Entanglement and Non-Disjunction in The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
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[1] In her book Literature and the Relational Self Barbara Ann Schapiro argues that individual human beings are fundamentally “responsive and relational” (Schapiro 1995: 128). Accommodating her insightful argument on the interpersonal level, I argue that it can likewise be applied on the intrapersonal level – the two opposing aspects of every one’s nature are not only responsive but also relational. Put differently, the Jekyllean aspect and the Hydean aspect are mutually ‘responsive and relational’ in a complex, entangling, and intertwining way.
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/lsmll.2016.40.1.36
Date of publication: 2016-07-27 14:57:57
Date of submission: 2016-03-05 18:22:33
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