On the Panoptical Eye of Self-Caring in Nabokov’s The Eye: A Foucauldian Analysis
Nabokov’s protagonist’s sufferings, suicide, and final happiness in The Eye (1930) can be analyzed through Foucault’s policy of the “care of the self” based on which an individual acts in a parrhesiastic relationship with himself to panoptically watch and discover himself. Smurov’s first-person I/ey...
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Petra Christian University
2015-06-01
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| Series: | K@ta: A Biannual Publication on the Study of Language and Literature |
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| Online Access: | http://puslit2.petra.ac.id/ejournal/index.php/ing/article/view/19434 |