Dodging the Literary Undertaker – Biographic Metafiction in Hanif Kureishi’s The Last Word
Prague Journal of English Studies, 2017 Hanif Kureishi’s 2014 novel, The Last Word, involves most of the author’s idiosyncratic themes, such as ethnicity, racism, sexual identity, examination of interpersonal relationships and the crucial role of the creative imagination in human life.
Chalupský Petr
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The Relation between Words and Worlds in The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
IAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship, 2016 This paper offers an analysis of Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. In the first part, Chabon’s novel will be read as an example of what Linda Hutcheon has coined “historiographic metafiction”.
Frederik De Vadder
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Between the Imagined Community and the Postmodernist View of Collective Identity in Salman Rushdie’s “Shame”. A Literary Analysis [PDF]
Incursiuni în imaginar, 2018 The present paper succeeds to our theoretical framing of what distinguishes New Historicism from traditional historiography and to a survey of the theoretical positions assumed by the main representatives of this school that has fuelled literary studies ...
Maria Mureșan
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Biographical Fiction to Historiographic Metafiction: Rewriting Clara Schumann [PDF]
Brno Studies in English, 2011 Clara Wieck Schumann was one of the leading concert pianists of the nineteenth century. Her story has been captured in several "fictionalised biographies," texts which transgress genre boundaries and renegotiate the relationship between historical fact and fiction. This essay will compare Janice Galloway's novel Clara (2002) with J. D. Landis's Longing
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History as Fiction: D. M. Thomas’s The White Hotel as an Example of Historiographic Metafiction
Gaziantep Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 2019 D. M. Thomas’s The White Hotel (1981) narrates the personal history of Lisa Erdman who is mercilessly murdered in the Babi Yar massacre in 1941. The aim of this paper is to analyze the ways D. M. Thomas uses history in The White Hotel and discusses the
Elzem NAZLI
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The Postmodern Challenge of Historiography in Contemporary Canadian Fiction:
American and British Studies Annual, 2022 As defined by Georg G. Iggers and promoted by Hayden White, the postmodern challenge of historiography calls into question the objective enquiry and truth value of history writing.
Vladimíra Fonfárová
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"Too many goddamn echoes": historicizing the Iraq War in Don DeLillo's Point Omega [PDF]
, 2015 This piece provides a detailed engagement with Don DeLillo's depiction of the 2003 Iraq war in his latest novel, Point Omega. Framed through both formal aesthetic signposting of the interrelations between modernist and postmodernist practice and also ...
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Перекладацький аналіз тексту [PDF]
, 2018 Мета курсу – придбання студентами теоретичних знань з аналітичних основ інтерпретації та редагування перекладів художніх текстів малих форм та кінотекстів та їхнім практичним використанням під час обробки текстів перекладів з англійської мови на ...
Гайдаш, Анна Владиславівна
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RIAK-RIAK POSMODERN DALAM CERPEN ABRACADABRA KARYA DANARTO
Lingua Didaktika: Jurnal Bahasa dan Pembelajaran Bahasa, 2010 Literature is a product of culture keeping abreast of human mind. Literary works is a means for the authors to express the social phenomenon in his life.
Dudy Syafruddin
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GHANAIAN FOLK THOUGHT, AKAN RELIGION AND AN ETHIC OF CARE IN SHARON DODUA OTOO'S ADAS RAUM*
German Life and Letters, Volume 77, Issue 1, Page 86-101, January 2024.ABSTRACT In this article I will analyse how cosmological myths, proverbs and pictorial symbols from Ghanaian folk thought and religion are adapted in Sharon Dodua Otoo's novel Adas Raum. I will focus primarily on the idea of the transmigration of the soul, which comes from the religion of the Akan people, and on the Sankofa symbol, which stands for a ...
Kyung‐Ho Cha
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