მეთიუ ო’კონორის სიმბოლურ-ასოციაციური სახე ჯუნა ბარნსის რომანებში „რაიდერი“ და „ღამის ტყე“
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2020
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The multifaceted and heterogeneous nature of characters, being a landmark characteristic
of modernist literature, is also reflected in the novels of Djuna Barnes, particularly in “Ryder”
and “Nightwood”. This paper aims to discuss nature of polysemic characters based on Matthew
O’Connor. Barnes portrayed homosexual and transvestite gynecologist Matthew O’Connor,
living in Paris as a primary figure in “Nightwood”, who also appears in Ryder” as a family
doctor. Barnes depicted O’Connor possessing multiple identities from multiple epochs and with
claims to have a prehistoric memory, in both novels, thus emphasizing that his eternity is
everlasting.
Unlicensed gynecologist Dr. Matthew O'Connor describes being trapped inside a man's
body. Witnessing the birth of every child in family and facing the fact that he can never be
mother O’Connor wants to be their mentor as well. He will never have a chance to feel
different experiences of his patients during pregnancy and childbirth. There is no greater pain
than what is caused by the doubts of incompleteness and barrenness, O’Connor is trapped by
dogma - he is forced to live under pressure of other people's thinking, going against his own
inner voice.
Barnes accomplishes much of her message through the figure of Dr. Matthew O’Connor
in “Nightwood”. As already mentioned, O'Connor is an American who practices medicine
without a license in Paris during the 1920s. He has deep understanding that life itself is
meaningless. Based on O'Connor's first-person monologues Barnes offers a Tiresian character of
expatriate Irish-American character.
The character of Matthew O’Connor, in both of Djuna Barnes’ novels became not only
the echo of the epoch but also the symbol of inseparable concepts - human and suffering.
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კონფერენცია ეძღვნება მეიფლაუერის ხელშეკრულების დადების მე-400 წლისთავს/ The 2020 Annual conference of the American Studies is dedicated to the 400th Anniversary of the Signing of the Mayflower Compact
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სიმბოლიზმი, ლიტერატურა, კრიტიკა, Symbolism, Literature, Criticism
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ამერიკისმცოდნეობის 21-ე ყოველწლიური საერთაშორისო კონფერენცია, 2020/ 21th International Annual Conference on American Studies, 2020