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CAVE IMAGE IN THE NOVELS BY PETER ACKROYD “THE FALL OF TROY” AND “THE PLATO PAPERS”
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Elena Dmitrievna Nushtaeva
Moscow State University of Education
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Submitted:
July 1, 2017
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Abstract.
The cave is an interesting and mysterious natural object attracting the attention of the researchers from different spheres of knowledge: from speleologists and geologists to art critics. In the literature the cave image is known from the ancient times. This frightening and captivating place can became both the habitation of a terrible monster and the dwelling-place of a god. The article examines the cave image represented in the novels by the British post-modernist Peter Ackroyd. The novels “The Fall of Troy” and “The Plato Papers” are closely associated with antiquity where the tradition to describe the cave as a sacred sanctuary (mythology) or as a limited “dark” space distorting the sounds, images and visions comes from. Peter Ackroyd re-considers these approaches to cave image representation proposing his own post-modernist interpretation.
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Key words and phrases:
античность
пещера
Платон
«Миф о Пещере»
постмодернизм
необъективность мышления
способы познания мира
antiquity
cave
Plato
“The Myth of the Cave”
post-modernism
unobjectivity of thinking
ways to cognize the world
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