Between Rolfe and Corvo : Life in the Margins of Make-Believe

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Between Rolfe and Corvo : Life in the Margins of Make-Believe

MIKEŠ, Michal

Basic information

Original name

Between Rolfe and Corvo : Life in the Margins of Make-Believe

Authors

MIKEŠ, Michal

Edition

Play, Masks and Make-believe : Ritual Representations, 5 December 2020, London Centre for International Studies, Cambridge University - online. 2020

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Prezentace na konferencích

Field of Study

60204 General literature studies

Country of publisher

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

URL

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

Keywords in English

Frederick Rolfe; Baron Corvo; make-believe; self-fashioning; transition; ritual

Abstract

V originále

When Frederick Rolfe as ‘Don Friderico’ designs an ecclesiastical procession in his tale “Doing Little, Lavishly”, his savage ‘divels’, all those boys he had befriended during his time in Italy, masquerade as the Seven Sleepers. Despite employing standard Roman Catholic imagery in this masquerade, Rolfe ever accentuates that the costumes used are of his own unique fashioning—two aspects that also provide a fitting reflection on Rolfe’s life at this transition. To escape his failure as a seminarian, Rolfe self-fashioned himself into Baron Corvo, a complex make-believe that also defined his relationships, real or fictive, as with his constant search for the ‘Divine Friend, Unknown, Most Desired’. Not surprisingly, Rolfe’s novel identity was never widely accepted, even by his few friends, which led him to become a liminal person who was, paradoxically, neither Rolfe nor Corvo, while at the same time both. That Rolfe depended on make-believe to define and structure his life is apparent from his various autobiographical works. This presentation will consider how those works, traditionally glossed over even by his biographers, illuminate fundamental aspects of his fascinating personality.

Links

MUNI/A/1204/2019, interní kód MU

Name: Researching Communication in English: Paradigms, Strategies, Developments - II (Acronym: ReComE 2020)

Investor: Masaryk University, Category A

Citovat

MIKEŠ, Michal. Between Rolfe and Corvo : Life in the Margins of Make-Believe. In Play, Masks and Make-believe : Ritual Representations, 5 December 2020, London Centre for International Studies, Cambridge University - online. 2020.

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MIKEŠ, Michal. Between Rolfe and Corvo : Life in the Margins of Make-Believe. In \textit{Play, Masks and Make-believe : Ritual Representations, 5 December 2020, London Centre for International Studies, Cambridge University - online.}. 2020.

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