The Defeat of Death : A Reading of Sir Henry Rider Haggard’s "Cleopatra"
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
3631627238
ISBN-13
9783631627235
Edition
New
Publisher
Peter Lang AG
Imprint
Peter Lang AG
Country of Manufacture
DE
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 24th, 2013
Print length
202 Pages
Weight
362 grams
Dimensions
15.70 x 21.60 x 1.80 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 HistoryPsychology
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The book reads Sir Henry Rider Haggard’s historical romance Cleopatra (1889). It demonstrates the concept of coincidentia oppositorum as the basic principle of life, and shows Cleopatra defeating death. The writer underscores the significance of simulating ancient Egypt, submerging in the unconscious, and espousing the spiritual world.
The monograph reads Sir Henry Rider Haggard’s historical romance Cleopatra (1889) with the aim to delineate the last decade of the Victorian period, shed light on the attempt to forge identity, and demonstrate the author’s preoccupation with the concept of coincidentia oppositorum as the basic principle of life, death, and regeneration. Through the mythic figure of Cleopatra, the simulacrum of the goddess Isis, the writer underscores that death can be defeated and immortality attained. By simulating ancient Egypt, submerging in the unconscious, withdrawing from the ephemeral world and espousing the spiritual, he came to terms with his fear of mortality, rejuvenated his self, and redeemed his soul. In perusing the three papyri, discovered in the hero’s sarcophagus, the reader traces the progress from the Ptolemaic degenerate court to that of Isis.
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