On a Wilde Parrot Chase: Julian Barnes and the Quarrel with the Realist Tradition
On a Wilde Parrot Chase: Julian Barnes and the Quarrel with the Realist Tradition
Author(s): Teodor MateocSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, British Literature
Published by: Editura Universitatii din Oradea
Keywords: realism; rewriting; ambiguity; irony; metafiction; historiography;
Summary/Abstract: The intention of the paper is to examine the way in which realist conventions are deconstructed by the narrative strategies used by the contemporary English writer in his novel. The narrative under scrutiny isn informed by the post-structuralist theories regarding the relation between art and reality, more specifically the way in which history can be rewritten as fictional discourse.
Journal: Confluenţe. Texts and Contexts Reloaded
- Issue Year: 1/2020
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 193-201
- Page Count: 9
- Language: English