THE СONCEPTUALIZATION OF DUALISM IN ENGLISH LITERATURE.
Abstract
This article examines the conceptualization of dualism as a sustained and evolving literary phenomenon in English literature, tracing its trajectory from the metaphysical binaries of the seventeenth century to the fragmented subjectivities of the modernist period. Drawing on canonical texts — including John Milton's Paradise Lost, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway — this study argues that dualism operates not merely as a thematic motif but as an organizing epistemological framework through which English writers interrogate identity, morality, power, and selfhood. The article contends that English literary dualism ultimately resists resolution, positioning the divided self as the most authentic and enduring figure of human experience.
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