AUC Philologica (Acta Universitatis Carolinae Philologica) is an academic journal published by Charles University. It publishes scholarly articles in a large number of disciplines (English, German, Greek and Latin, Oriental, Romance and Slavonic studies, as well as in phonetics and translation studies), both on linguistic and on literary and cultural topics. Apart from articles it publishes reviews of new academic books or special issues of academic journals.
The journal is indexed in CEEOL, DOAJ, EBSCO, and ERIH PLUS.
AUC PHILOLOGICA, Vol 2012 No 1 (2012), 49–55
The Metafictional Aspect of Strindberg’s Ett drömspel
Martin Humpál
published online: 29. 12. 2014
abstract
August Strindberg’s drama A Dream Play (1902) blends reality and a dream in such a way that it is impossible to distinguish between them. Many scholars have commented on these two dimensions of the play, but few have noticed a third, specifically fictional dimension. The article points out that the text of the drama indicates several times that the entire action might only be a fiction created by one of the play’s characters: the Poet. The author of the article argues that this phenomenon adds a metafictional aspect to A Dream Play. Metafikční aspekt Strindbergova dramatu Ett drömspel Hra snů (1902) Augusta Strindberga mísí realitu a sen takovým způsobem, že je nemožné je od sebe navzájem odlišit. Těmito dvěma dimenzemi hry se již zabývalo mnoho badatelů, ale málo z nich si všimlo ještě třetího, specificky fiktivního rozměru. Článek poukazuje na to, že text dramatu několikrát naznačuje, že celý děj je možná jen fikce vytvořená jednou z postav hry, Básníkem. Autor článku argumentuje, že tento jev dodává Hře snů metafikční aspekt.
keywords: August Strindberg; A Dream Play; Swedish literature; Swedish drama; metafiction
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