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CK on lemniscate tracings and Jekyll and Hyde cinematic doublings
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What pleases me about the discovery of the anatomical lemnisci, is that
the dual-bicycle lemniscates are now shown to also make reference to
brain anatomy, which I can now add to the other examples of brain
imagery I've detected in Pale Fire, whether by coincidence or, more
likely, by authorial design.
Carolyn
To the List,
Harry M Geduld, who writes on the history of cinema, edited The
Definitive Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde Companion (Garland, 1983*) has
apparently seen in Pale Fire something similar to what I have seen (from
his Introduction, page 3) :
"Stevenson's story also endures as a landmark in the evolution of
psychological fiction, anticipating the psychic conflicts of doubles or
alternating personalities in such notable works as Dostoevsky's The
Devils (1872), Conrad's "The Secret Sharer" (1912), and Nabokov's Pale
Fire (1962).
"Written autotherapeutically in the aftermath of a nightmare, Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde immediately popularized the concept of alternating
personality years before Freud began publishing his first papers on
psychoanalysis."
Carolyn
* yes, one of the same Garland Companion series as is the excellent one
on Nabokov
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What pleases me about the discovery of the anatomical lemnisci, is that
the dual-bicycle lemniscates are now shown to also make reference to
brain anatomy, which I can now add to the other examples of brain
imagery I've detected in Pale Fire, whether by coincidence or, more
likely, by authorial design.
Carolyn
To the List,
Harry M Geduld, who writes on the history of cinema, edited The
Definitive Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde Companion (Garland, 1983*) has
apparently seen in Pale Fire something similar to what I have seen (from
his Introduction, page 3) :
"Stevenson's story also endures as a landmark in the evolution of
psychological fiction, anticipating the psychic conflicts of doubles or
alternating personalities in such notable works as Dostoevsky's The
Devils (1872), Conrad's "The Secret Sharer" (1912), and Nabokov's Pale
Fire (1962).
"Written autotherapeutically in the aftermath of a nightmare, Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde immediately popularized the concept of alternating
personality years before Freud began publishing his first papers on
psychoanalysis."
Carolyn
* yes, one of the same Garland Companion series as is the excellent one
on Nabokov
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