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dc.contributor.authorPepe, Paolo
dc.date.accessioned2023-10-02T15:42:47Z
dc.date.available2023-10-02T15:42:47Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.identifier.citationPepe, Paolo. "From innocence to experience. The seduction of knowledge in Melmoth the Wanderer". «Testi e linguaggi» 16 (2022): 197-207. [Studi monografici. Dalla neue frau/new woman/donna nuova al transgender e queer: trasformazioni dei discorsi sull’identità di genere]it_IT
dc.identifier.isbn978-88-290-1439-2it_IT
dc.identifier.issn1974-2886it_IT
dc.identifier.urihttp://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/6754
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.14273/unisa-4815
dc.description.abstractThis essay discusses one of the masterpieces of English Gothic literature: Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) by Charles Robert Maturin. The analysis focuses on the complex relationship established by the eponymous protagonist, Melmoth, with the young and innocent Immalee, within the interpolated Tale of the Indians. The corruption of innocence, the Wanderer’s attempt to attract and seduce, unfolds on the fringes of the erotic sphere and its rhetoric, thus becoming a marker of both epistemic and aesthetic tension. Most unexpectedly, the diabolical seducer’s act brings about no impulse towards assimilation. On the contrary, it arouses in the designated victim an irrepressible desire for differentiation and distinction between the self and the other, fostering a drive to separate and to learn, yielding to the entropy of becoming to experience the energy of difference and the giddying vertigo of the extreme form of Gothic trespass: the (Blakeian) marriage of Heaven and Hell.it_IT
dc.format.extentP. 197 - 207it_IT
dc.language.isoenit_IT
dc.publisherRoma : Carocciit_IT
dc.sourceUniSa. Sistema Bibliotecario di Ateneoit_IT
dc.subjectMaturinit_IT
dc.subjectMelmoth the Wanderer,it_IT
dc.subjectImmaleeit_IT
dc.subjectKnowledgeit_IT
dc.subjectSeductionit_IT
dc.subjectSufferingit_IT
dc.subjectParadise Lostit_IT
dc.titleFrom innocence to experience. The seduction of knowledge in Melmoth the Wandererit_IT
dc.typeJournal Articleit_IT
dc.relation.ispartofjournalTesti e linguaggiit_IT
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