CAVE IMAGE IN THE NOVELS BY PETER ACKROYD “THE FALL OF TROY” AND “THE PLATO PAPERS”
Abstract
The cave is an interesting and mysterious natural object attracting the attention of the researchers from different spheres of knowledge: from speleologists and geologists to art critics. In the literature the cave image is known from the ancient times. This frightening and captivating place can became both the habitation of a terrible monster and the dwelling-place of a god. The article examines the cave image represented in the novels by the British post-modernist Peter Ackroyd. The novels “The Fall of Troy” and “The Plato Papers” are closely associated with antiquity where the tradition to describe the cave as a sacred sanctuary (mythology) or as a limited “dark” space distorting the sounds, images and visions comes from. Peter Ackroyd re-considers these approaches to cave image representation proposing his own post-modernist interpretation.
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- Published: July 1, 2017.
Keywords
- античность
- пещера
- Платон
- «Миф о Пещере»
- постмодернизм
- необъективность мышления
- способы познания мира
- antiquity
- cave
- Plato
- “The Myth of the Cave”
- post-modernism
- unobjectivity of thinking
- ways to cognize the world
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