АНГЛИЙСКАЯ ЛИТЕРАТУРА МЕЖДУ МОДЕРНИЗМОМ И ПОСТМОДЕРНИЗМОМ: ЭНТОНИ БЁРДЖЕСС И ГРЭМ СВИФТ
ENGLISH LITERATURE BETWEEN MODERNISM AND POSTMODERNISM: ANTHONY BURGESS AND GRAHAM SWIFT
Author(s): Liliya Fuatovna KhabibullinaSubject(s): History, Language and Literature Studies, Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Novel, Other Language Literature, Translation Studies
Published by: Казанский (Приволжский) федеральный университет
Keywords: modernism; postmodernism; English literature; A. Burgess; G. Swift;
Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with the novels “The End of the World News” by A. Burgess and “Waterland” by G. Swift as transient phenomena from the modernist cyclical conception of history, with its tendency to historical mythologization and subjectivity, towards postmodernism, which is characterized by demythologization and deconstruction of historical narratives. The biblical myths serve as the conceptual basis of A. Burgess and G. Swift’s works, the textual structuring of which makes them occupy a unique position “between” modernism and postmodernism.
Journal: Ученые записки Казанского университета. Серия Гуманитарные науки
- Issue Year: 157/2015
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 239-245
- Page Count: 7
- Language: Russian