Lost Dolls, Lost Souls in Elena Ferrante’s La figlia oscura

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dc.identifier	ECF_article_1661
dc.title	Lost Dolls, Lost Souls in Elena Ferrante’s La figlia oscura
dc.contributor.author	Kaya Nilay
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.type	Articolo
dc.language.iso	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/it/edizioni4/riviste/annali-di-ca-foscari-serie-orientale/2019/1/lost-dolls-lost-souls-in-elena-ferrantes-la-figlia/
dc.description.abstract	This paper aims to analyse Elena Ferrante’s use of the metaphor of playing with dolls in her novel, La figlia oscura (The Lost Daughter). With a view of shedding a light on this issue, the first part of the paper will review the prominent essays of Sigmund Freud, Ernst Jentsch, Walter Benjamin, Rainer Maria Rilke and Charles Baudelaire that question the nature of playing with dolls in terms of psychology with various focuses. These essays generally agree on the fact that playing with dolls is a strong threshold to come to terms with the self, as well as on the fact that this coming to terms with the self is by nature not guaranteed. The second part will examine Elena Ferrante’s dealing with the problem of playing with dolls and her character’s journey to death and a possible psychological resurrection.
dc.relation.ispartof	Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 55 \| Giugno 2019
dc.issued	2019-06-27
dc.dateAccepted	2019-05-29
dc.dateSubmitted	2019-01-24
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2385-3042
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/AnnOr/2385-3042/2019/01/022
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Dolls as metaphors
dc.subject	Dolls as metaphors
dc.subject	Elena Ferrante
dc.subject	Elena Ferrante
dc.subject	Inanimate objects in literature
dc.subject	Inanimate objects in literature
dc.subject	La figlia oscura
dc.subject	La figlia oscura
dc.subject	Self-rotation
dc.subject	Self-rotation

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Lost Dolls, Lost Souls in Elena Ferrante’s La figlia oscura

Nilay Kaya İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi, Türkiye

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abstract

This paper aims to analyse Elena Ferrante’s use of the metaphor of playing with dolls in her novel, La figlia oscura (The Lost Daughter). With a view of shedding a light on this issue, the first part of the paper will review the prominent essays of Sigmund Freud, Ernst Jentsch, Walter Benjamin, Rainer Maria Rilke and Charles Baudelaire that question the nature of playing with dolls in terms of psychology with various focuses. These essays generally agree on the fact that playing with dolls is a strong threshold to come to terms with the self, as well as on the fact that this coming to terms with the self is by nature not guaranteed. The second part will examine Elena Ferrante’s dealing with the problem of playing with dolls and her character’s journey to death and a possible psychological resurrection.

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27 Giugno 2019

Accettato

29 Maggio 2019

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24 Gennaio 2019

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Keywords: Dolls as metaphors • La figlia oscura • Elena Ferrante • Inanimate objects in literature • Self-rotation

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