"Night of Destiny or the Play of Light and Darkness in Defoe's Novels"
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2008
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PUB TYPE:
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Conference Paper in Proceedings
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PAGES:
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185 -
204
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Eighteenth-century English Fiction, Daniel Defoe
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Literature
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LANGUAGE:
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English
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PUB ID:
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103-448-719
(Last edited on
2009/05/05 05:36:21 GMT-6)
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ABSTRACT:
In most of Defoe’s novels, nighttime is the locus of turning points in the destinies of protagonists. Premonitory dreams, which decisively mark Defoe’s first novel, are another aspect of the link between nightly space and destiny. Like dream, any form of imaging widens the scope of this relationship; hence the importance of the metaphorical sense of night in any exploration of its relation to destiny. In Defoe, the unfathomable designs of God and the presence of the Prince of Darkness are part of this. Conversely, dreaming and writing as a medium of dreaming embody paradoxical attempts at mastering one’s destiny and exorcising darkness within the framework of the literary lottery.
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