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PYGMALION: FROM THE GIFT OF SPEECH TO THE GIFT OF CREATION


ANDREIA VITALUS
University of Bacau

Issue:

CP, Number 9

Section:

No. 9 (2004)  Editorial

Abstract:

The paper is an interpretation of Shaw's Pygmalion from the point of view of the experiment that is performed by the main character with the purpose of giving/bestowing his knowledge on his subject. Whether this process of giving is unilateral or whether it becomes in turn a challenge, an invitation, a reparatory act or a temptation is one of the main issues of our paper. We shall debate upon the possibility of the subject/recipient swapping places with her donor and, thus, upon the bilateral nature of the process of gift-giving. Authorship vs. creation and Shaw's innovations, be they thematic, stylistic, orthographical, didactic, are some other aspects dealt with in this paper.

Keywords:

creation, experiment, challenge, exchange, trade, (trans)act(ion) gift, present, offer, donation to teach, to give (knowledge/life), to bestow, to endow, to lavish, to fling, to throw, to chuck, to shy to give/to take, to give - to receive, giver/taker.

Code [ID]:

CP200409V00S01A0009 [0004523]


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