On the Track of the Men without Shadow: a Reading of “The Fisherman and His Soul”
This work aims at analyzing the short story “The fisherman and his soul”, by Oscar Wilde, under the perspective of the double. The text of Wilde recovers a theme whose roots lie in the mythological consciousness of ancient peoples: the shadow as personification or equivalent of the human soul. In th...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2013 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Estadual de Londrina (UEL) |
| Repositorio: | Terra Roxa e Outras Terras: Revista de Estudos Literários |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/25164 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/terraroxa/article/view/25164 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Oscar Wilde Short story Double Shadow Conto Duplo Sombra |
| Sumario: | This work aims at analyzing the short story “The fisherman and his soul”, by Oscar Wilde, under the perspective of the double. The text of Wilde recovers a theme whose roots lie in the mythological consciousness of ancient peoples: the shadow as personification or equivalent of the human soul. In this short story, the separation between body and shadow/soul will result in serious consequences for the protagonist: a young fisherman, belonging to the Jewish-Christian universe, who falls in love with a mermaid, a being coming from the pagan mythological universe. |
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