Through the Lenses of Frederick Rolfe : “History as It Ought to
Have Been and Very Well Might Have Been, but Wasn’t”

k 2020

Through the Lenses of Frederick Rolfe : “History as It Ought to Have Been and Very Well Might Have Been, but Wasn’t”

MIKEŠ, Michal

Základní údaje

Originální název

Through the Lenses of Frederick Rolfe : “History as It Ought to Have Been and Very Well Might Have Been, but Wasn’t”

Autoři

MIKEŠ, Michal

Vydání

Mirror, Mirror : Perceptions, Deceptions, and Reflections in Time, 19 September 2020, London Centre for International Studies, Oxford University - online. 2020

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Prezentace na konferencích

Obor

60204 General literature studies

Stát vydavatele

Velká Británie a Severní Irsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

URL

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

Frederick Rolfe; Baron Corvo; reflection; autobiography; self-fashioning; history

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 3. 4. 2021 11:11, Mgr. Jana Pelclová, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

“Create a world of your own to live in” was Frederick Rolfe’s response as he kept altering the unfavorable conditions of his life with reflections of a reality that he would have preferred. While success and “admiratio” ever eluded him, Rolfe resorted to manufacturing a more suitable, idealized reality that he often felt was withheld from him, thus creating the “history as it ought to have been and very well might have been, but wasn’t.” As a painter, he captured his vision by projecting images on a drawing area. As a photographer, he articulated intimate Uranian desires through pictures that belong to the aesthetic movement of photography from the turn of the 20th century. As a writer, he corrected injustice with his own literary reflections (Rose, Crabbe), even to the point of instructing his future biographers on how they should proceed to judge him. And, as a person, he self-fashioned himself into whom he believed he deserved to be (Fr Austin, Baron Corvo). This presentation will analyze these intersecting reflections within Frederick Rolfe’s works and life before arguing that his Chronicles of the House of Borgia, which has been overlooked by his biographers, is in fact crucial for understanding his self-perception and expectations.

Návaznosti

MUNI/A/1204/2019, interní kód MU

Název: Researching Communication in English: Paradigms, Strategies, Developments - II (Akronym: ReComE 2020)

Investor: Masarykova univerzita, Researching Communication in English: Paradigms, Strategies, Developments - II, DO R. 2020_Kategorie A - Specifický výzkum - Studentské výzkumné projekty

Citovat

MIKEŠ, Michal. Through the Lenses of Frederick Rolfe : “History as It Ought to Have Been and Very Well Might Have Been, but Wasn’t”. In Mirror, Mirror : Perceptions, Deceptions, and Reflections in Time, 19 September 2020, London Centre for International Studies, Oxford University - online. 2020.

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MIKEŠ, Michal. Through the Lenses of Frederick Rolfe : “History as It Ought to Have Been and Very Well Might Have Been, but Wasn’t”. In \textit{Mirror, Mirror : Perceptions, Deceptions, and Reflections in Time, 19 September 2020, London Centre for International Studies, Oxford University - online.}. 2020.

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