THE DOSTOEVSKY IN JOAQUIN'S SELECTED FICTION: TOWARDS DEVELOPING A FILIPINO MODEL OF COMPARATIVE STUDY IN LITERATURE
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Comparative literature, deconstruction, discourse, education
Abstract
This study probed how deep the Russian Dostoevsky had influenced the Filipino Nick Joaquin's fiction using the former's own selected works as the main touchtone. It utilized the descriptive analytical method of research focusing on content employing theories on comparative literature. The primary data in this study were culled from three novels and twenty selected short stories from each novelist, along with the leading critical thoughts of Bakhtin, Sartre, Foucault and Lacan. Cleaving to the comparative analytical design of this study, a model of comparative study in literature was developed. Specifically, the following questions were sought: What Dostoevskian elements and influences resonate in Joaquin's fiction; What constructs inhere in Dostoevsky's and Joaquin's works?; What model for a comparative study in literature can be proposed? It is revealed that 16 elements and influences illuminated in the Russian fictionist's representative works bound within Joaquin's own texts. Relatively, the fictive worlds created by both novelists richly extend to the other spheres of human expression as sustained by select literary, philosophical, historical and psychological constructs, particularly Bakhtin's novelistic discourse, Sartre's stance on (dis)engagement, Foucault's author-function, and Lacan's consciousness theory. These findings affirm and reinforce Remak's assertion that comparative literature is the study of literature beyond the confines of one particular country and its relationship with the other spheres of knowledge and belief such as arts, philosophy, religion, history, the social sciences, etc.
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__________ . (1968). Great short works of Dostoevsky(Trans. Ronald Hingley). New York: Harper & Row Classic.
___________. (1981). The Brothers Karamazov (Trans. Constance Garnett). New York: Bantam Books.
___________. (2000). The eternal husband and other stories( Trans. R. Pevear & L.Volokhonsky). New York: Bantam Books.
___________. (1958). Notes from the underground (Trans. Donald Fanger). New York: Bantam Books.
___________ . (1923). White Nights and other stories (Trans. Constance Garnett). New York: The Mcmillan Company.
___________. (1967) “Peasant Marey” The Short story – Ideas and backgrounds (eds. Glorfeld, L. et al). Ohio: Charles C. Merrel Books, Inc.
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Evans, D. (1996). An introductory dictionary of Lacan. New York: Routledge.
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__________. (1985). Language, counter-memory practice: selected essays and Interviews (Trans. D. Bouchard & S. Simon). New York: Cornell University Press.
__________. (1985). Power/knowledge: selected interviews and other writings 1972-1977. New York: Pantheon Books.
__________. (1967) Madness in Civilization. New York: A Mentor Book.
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Hosillos, L. V. (1968). The concentric sphere and other essays in comparative literature. University of the Philippines
__________ (1961). “William Faulkner and Nick Joaquin: An approach through dialectics” (Unpub. Thesis) Indiana: Indiana University.
Ivanov, Y. (1957). Freedom and the tragic life: a study in Dostoevsky. New York. The Noonday Press.
Joaquin, N. (1991). Cave and shadows.Pasig City: Anvil.
_________ (2004).Culture and history.Pasig City: Anvil.
_________ (1991).Prose and poems.Makati: Bookmark
_________ (2004).The tropical gothic. Pasig City: Anvil.
_________ (1991). The woman who had two navels.Makati: Bookmark.
Jones E. (1961). Papers on psychoanalysis. Boston: Beacon Press.
Jost, F. (1974).Introduction to comparative literature.Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc.
__________. (1966). Proceedings of the VIth Congress of the international comparative literature. Paris: Mounton and Co. Association.
Kaufmann, W. (1975).Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre. USA: New American Library.
Lacan, J. (1977). Ecrits: a selection (Trans. Alan Sheridan). New York: Norton.
Lazar, Jonathan, et al. (2010). Research methods in human-computer interaction.UK: Wiley.
Lodge, D. (1988). Modern criticism and theory: a reader. New York: Longman.
Orias, Roberto t. (2008). A psychoanalytic reading of Nick Joaquin's first ten stories (Unpub.Thesis).University of Eastern Philippines.
Pama-Dinoro (2003).“Folk christianity in the stories of Nick Joaquin” (Unpub.Thesis). Iligan City: Mindanao State University
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____________. (1961). “Comparative Literature, Its definition and function.” Comparative Literature: Methods and Perspective. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.
San Juan E. (1998). Subversion of desire: a prolegomena to Nick Joaquin. Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press.
Sartre, J. P. (1956). Being and Nothingness: an essay on phenomenological ontology(Trans. Hazel Barnes). New York: Philosophical Library.
Slonim, M. (1950) Epic of Russian literature. New York: Oxford University Press.
Wellek, R. (1962). Dostoevsky: a collection of critical essays. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, Inc.
Zizek, S. (2003).Jacques Lacan: critical evaluation in cultural theory. New York: Routledge.
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Oamil, E. L., Montealegre, M. A. C., & Mendiola, V. L. (2015). THE DOSTOEVSKY IN JOAQUIN’S SELECTED FICTION: TOWARDS DEVELOPING A FILIPINO MODEL OF COMPARATIVE STUDY IN LITERATURE. The Normal Lights, 8(2). https://doi.org/10.56278/tnl.v8i2.18
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