Il duello con sé stessi: <em>Il cavaliere doppio</em> di Théophile Gautier
In a story entitled Le chevalier double and published in 1840, Théophile Gautier stages the duel between a medieval knight and his double, who represents a part of himself, a diabolical part whose origin lies in a mysterious adultery. At the turn of the fairy tale and the fantastic, this story is co...
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| description | In a story entitled Le chevalier double and published in 1840, Théophile Gautier stages the duel between a medieval knight and his double, who represents a part of himself, a diabolical part whose origin lies in a mysterious adultery. At the turn of the fairy tale and the fantastic, this story is contemporary of Poe’s William Wilson, and echoes some earlier works, by E.T.A. Hoffmann and Washington Irving in particular, but also draws on a more distant tradition, which dates back to seventeenth-century Spain. Poe and Gautier gave different results and meanings to the duels of their characters: this paper proposes a reflection on this difference, and more generally on the theme of the duel with the double.
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| spelling | doaj.art-8dd1a517f0bd439e91e094c8f074bac72023-09-02T12:12:27ZengUNICApressBetween2039-65972022-11-01122410.13125/2039-6597/5217Il duello con sé stessi: <em>Il cavaliere doppio</em> di Théophile GautierPaolo TortoneseIn a story entitled Le chevalier double and published in 1840, Théophile Gautier stages the duel between a medieval knight and his double, who represents a part of himself, a diabolical part whose origin lies in a mysterious adultery. At the turn of the fairy tale and the fantastic, this story is contemporary of Poe’s William Wilson, and echoes some earlier works, by E.T.A. Hoffmann and Washington Irving in particular, but also draws on a more distant tradition, which dates back to seventeenth-century Spain. Poe and Gautier gave different results and meanings to the duels of their characters: this paper proposes a reflection on this difference, and more generally on the theme of the duel with the double. https://ojs.unica.it/index.php/between/article/view/5217Théophile GautierEdgar Allan PoeGhostDoubleDoppelgänger |
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| title | Il duello con sé stessi: <em>Il cavaliere doppio</em> di Théophile Gautier |
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| title_sort | il duello con se stessi em il cavaliere doppio em di theophile gautier |
| topic | Théophile Gautier Edgar Allan Poe Ghost Double Doppelgänger |
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