Breaking the Boundaries Between the Self and the Other in Byron's Don Juan

DUDOVÁ, Markéta. Breaking the Boundaries Between the Self and the Other in Byron's Don Juan. 2020.

Basic information

• Original name: Breaking the Boundaries Between the Self and the Other in Byron's Don Juan
• Authors: DUDOVÁ, Markéta.
• Edition: 2020.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Presentations at conferences
• Field of Study: 60204 General literature studies
• Country of publisher: Czech Republic
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• WWW: Breaking the Boundaries: 11th Brno International Conference of English, American and Canadian Studies, Brno.
• Organization unit: Language Centre
• Keywords in English: Byron; Don Juan; Romanticism

Abstract

In his poem Don Juan, Byron deconstructs probably every binary opposition or a cultural, conceptual divide or boundary that ever was constructed: be it the male / female divide, heterosexual / homosexual, East / West, Christian / Islamic, civilised / savage, US / Them or the Self and the Other. One of the devices Byron uses for breaking boundaries in the poem is the imagery of food. This paper reads the poem by employing theories of digestion to problematize the distinction between the Self and the Other in the English cantos of Don Juan.

Links

• MUNI/A/1246/2014, interní kód MU: Name: Nové směry v anglofonním jazykovědném a literárním výzkumu III (Acronym: NDALLR3)

Investor: Masaryk University, Category A