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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 1 / 2017  
         
  Article:   FROM “DOVER BEACH” TO “JAKARTA”. A RE-EXAMINATION OF THE ARNOLDIAN CHOICE THROUGH AN INTERTEXTUAL EXERCISE.

Authors:  OCTAVIAN MORE.
 
       
         
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/subbphilo.2017.1.05

Published Online: 2017-03-24
Published Print: 2017-03-31

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From “Dover Beach” to “Jakarta”. A Re-Examination of the Arnoldian Choice through an Intertextual Exercise. By juxtaposing Matthew Arnold’s emblematic poem to texts by Anthony Hecht and Alice Munro, this paper aims at providing a review of some fundamental traits of the Victorian thinker’s “philosophy of pessimism” (“choice”, “renouncement”, “self-effacement”), questioning, at the same time, the social and sexual stereotypes that both unite and differentiate the respective pieces.

Keywords: Arnold, Hecht, Munro, choice, renouncement, pessimism, Dover Beach.

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