Potraga za identitetom ženskih likova u romanima Ajris Merdok Odrubljena glava i Bjekstvo od čarobnjaka
Search for identity of the female characters in Iris Murdoch's novels A severed head and the flight from the enchanter
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Čurović, Dragana D.Mentor
Petrović, NovicaCommittee members
Vukčević, RadojkaĐergović Joksimović, Zorica
Kovačević, Ivan
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U ovom radu data je socijalna, psihološka i kulturna kontekstualizacija potrage za
identitetom ženskih likova u romanima Ajris Merdok Bjekstvo od čarobnjaka (The
Flight from the Enchanter) i Odrubljena glava (A Severed Head). Oba romana se
karakterišu izuzetno složenim muško-ženskim odnosima predstavljenim uz
mnoštvo filozofskih, mitoloških i psiholoških referenci. U njima se obrañuje
dolazak do slobode i moralno ispravnih izbora; spoznaja do koje se postepeno
dolazi o tome koja ograničenja postoje i pred likovima ovih romana i pred nama
samima, kao i koja je cijena svakog poteza koji napravimo i po nas i po ljude koji
nas okružuju. Uz jaku karakterizaciju likova, ljudsko iskustvo se sagledava na
složeniji način nego što je to najčešće slučaj u savremenim romanima. Pratimo u
kom smislu se potraga za identitetom ženskih likova u njima podudara sa
socijalnim, psihološkim i kulturnim karakteristikama vremena i društva u kome
one žive i rade, tj. u kojoj mjeri su društvene promjene prilika... ili, pak, prepreka
razvoju njihovog sopstvenog identiteta, a sve to u svjetlu, izmeñu ostalih,
egzistencijalističkih dilema o otuñenju i beznačajnosti. Pri tome se koristimo
relevantnim književnim teorijama koje je postavila Merdokova, po kojima pri
oblikovanju stvarnosti književnost i umjetnost moraju da dovedu do stvaranja
novih moralnih koncepata i do pronalaženja svoje svrhe u društvu. Osim njenog,
pozivamo se i na mišljenja književnih kritičara, biografa i njenih savremenika i
literarnih nasljednika o njenom radu, uz korišćenje relevantnih socioloških i
psiholoških teorija, sa posebnim osvrtom na teorije Žaka Lakana i koncept
Frojdove psihoanalize. Upotrebom uporedno-analitičkih metoda, cilj nam je da
postignemo sintezu teorijskih znanja o problemu identiteta ženskih likova u...
The subject of this Thesis is the social, psychological and cultural contextualization
of the search for identity of the female characters in Iris Murdoch’s novels The
Flight from the Enchanter and A Severed Head. Both novels are characterized by
extremely complex male-female relations, which are presented by means of
numerous philosophical, mythological and psychological references. These novels
deal with the ways of obtaining freedom and making morally acceptable choices in
life; their characters and thus ourselves learn gradually what obstacles life has
imposed on us. The other realization reached is what effects each move we make
may have on ourselves and other people. Since the natures of the elaborately made
characters of these novels are complex and multifold, the human experience
thereby presented is much more complex than it is usually the case with other
contemporary novels. In this Thesis, we examine the extent to which the search for
identity of Murdoch’s female characters ...in these novels is in line with the social,
psychological and cultural characteristics of the age and society that they live in
and to which extent that society provides opportunities for or sets obstacles before
these characters’ identity development.
This analysis is done by drawing on the relevant existentialist dilemmas on
alienation and feeling of personal insignificance in the contemporary world, as
well as by using the appropriate literary theories set either by Murdoch herself or
the literary critics of her work. We also draw on the opinions of her biographers
and her literary successors, as well as use relevant sociological and psychological
theories. The special emphasis is put on Jacques Lacan’s theories and Freud’s
concept of psychoanalysis. By using comparative-analytical methods, our goal is to
make the synthesis of the theoretical knowledge on the female characters’ identity
issues present in the literary theory of Iris Murdoch and in the critics’ reception of
her work, whereby this will be primarily achieved by applying sociological and
psychological analysis of the novels chosen in this Thesis...