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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Postmodern Novel"”.
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A self-conscious Kurt Vonnegut: an analysis of Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions
… canon. Looking at three of his most influential novels, namely Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions, this study aims to better understand the mechanisms which inform his fiction. Working chronologically through the novels, the study examines historical context, narrative …
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Rewriting myths through life writings in Marina Warner's fiction
… which are engrafted upon four of Marina Warner's novels through the mise en abîme technique called "metabiography". These novels are In a Dark Wood (1977), The Lost Father (1988), Indigo; or Mapping the Waters (1992) and The Leto Bundle (2000). Across this body of work, the evolution of …
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An ecofeminist creation : how Poor Things rewrites and re-animates Frankenstein
… and early twenty-first centuries. His 1992 novel, Poor Things, represents a culmination of his carefully curated and craftily charged textual maneuvers as well as a rewrite of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1831). His creation of a rewritten, adapted text endows his novel with further …
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Nomina nuda tenemus: Postmodernist Method in Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire
… je nepochybně jedním z nejvýznamnějších autorů postmoderny. Tato bakalářská práce si klade za cíl analyzovat metodu, kterou užívá v Bledém ohni a díky níž je tento román možné nazvat postmoderním dílem. Jeho práce s textem způsobuje, že Bledý oheň představuje typický příklad Lyotardovy nedůvěry …
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The postmodern structure of consciousness
… As such, I identify the metaphor of the postmodern structure of consciousness, as the best tool by which to both identify and understand postmodernism in its literary expression. This is done through an analysis of epistemological and ontological questions, considered specifically in the …