BLURRING BOUNDARIES BETWEEN SANITY AND INSANITY: A CRITICAL STUDY ON THE USE OF THE FOOL TO DECONSTRUCT POLITICIZED INSANITY IN LEONARD WOOLF’S ‘THE VILLAGE IN THE JUNGLE’
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| 1. | Title | Title of document | BLURRING BOUNDARIES BETWEEN SANITY AND INSANITY: A CRITICAL STUDY ON THE USE OF THE FOOL TO DECONSTRUCT POLITICIZED INSANITY IN LEONARD WOOLF’S ‘THE VILLAGE IN THE JUNGLE’ |
| 2. | Creator | Author's name, affiliation, country | Waruni Tennakoon; Senior Lecturer, Department of English, Buddhist and Pali University of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka |
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| 3. | Subject | Keyword(s) | sanity, insanity, political meaning, Fool, The Village in the Jungle, King Lear |
| 4. | Description | Abstract | The present study intends to explore how Leonard Woolf has questioned the boundaries between sanity and insanity in his first novel, ‘The Village in the Jungle’. Arguing that these words are highly embedded with political meaning, the paper proves the two characters in the novel; Silindu and the old beggar resemble the characteristics of the Shakespearean Fool. Thus, the characteristics of the Fool in King Lear are compared with those of Silindu and the beggar in the novel. With the findings, it is expected to encourage students of literature to understand the political character of the polarizing words and emphasize the need to deconstruct and challenge their effect in society to limit and marginalize people.
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| 5. | Publisher | Organizing agency, location | Open Access Publishing Group |
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| 7. | Date | (YYYY-MM-DD) | 2022-09-05 |
| 8. | Type | Status & genre | Peer-reviewed Article |
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| 10. | Identifier | Uniform Resource Identifier | https://oapub.org/lit/index.php/EJLS/article/view/362 |
| 10. | Identifier | Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | http://dx.doi.org/10.46827/ejls.v3i2.362 |
| 11. | Source | Title; vol., no. (year) | European Journal of Literary Studies; Vol 3, No 2 (2022) |
| 12. | Language | English=en | en |
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