NON-CONFOMIST HISTORY OR NON-HISTORIC CONFORMISM? RODDY DOYLE’S THE LAST ROUNDUP TRILOGY
NON-CONFOMIST HISTORY OR NON-HISTORIC CONFORMISM? RODDY DOYLE’S THE LAST ROUNDUP TRILOGY
Author(s): Péter DolmányosSubject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Editura Universităţii de Vest din Timişoara / Diacritic Timisoara
Keywords: contemporary Irish literature; historical novel; historiographic metafiction;
Summary/Abstract: Roddy Doyle’s trilogy entitled The Last Roundup is the writer’s tentative experiment with historical fiction. Doyle does not follow the pattern of traditional historical novels but does not conform to the concept of historiographic metafiction either. His ingenious approach to the story of Henry Smart reconsiders notions of historical fiction and prompts questions regarding linearity, chronology, the selection of the narrated events and their duration in the respective novels of the trilogy.
Journal: B.A.S. British and American Studies
- Issue Year: 2015
- Issue No: 21
- Page Range: 125-132
- Page Count: 8
