Search results for "metafiction"
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The Hangman's Game: Karen King-Aribisala's "diary of creation"
2008
The structure of King Aribisala's multi-layered novel "The Hangman's Game" is complex: each narrative thread reverberates onto the other, creating an intricate network of (sometimes distorting) mirrors, suggesting an interconnectedness between past and present, reality and fiction, living and writing. This paper endeavours to explore this complex relationship and to demonstrate how the protean phenomenon of resurgence informs "The Hangman's Game".
First-Hand Becomes Second-Hand: André Brink's A Dry White Season
2009
This paper offers a reading of André Brink's novel A Dry White Season in relation to his own essay The Novel:. Language and Narrative From Cervantes to Calvino. The aim is to demonstrate that Brink's theory can help highlight aspects of his apartheid writings which have often been neglected. The paper explores, in particular, the metafictional features of a novel more famous for its committed nature than for its self-reflexivity
"More or Less American: Sergio Leone's Vision of America in 'Once Upon a Time in the West' (1968)"
2012
This article focuses on the representation of the American West in Sergio Leone's fourth Western, which is the first to include several scenes that have been shot on location in the U.S. The author argues that Once Upon a Time in the West offers a critique not only of the classical Hollywood Westerns Leone adored, but also of his own brand of Italian Western, which may, in part, explain why members of the counter-culture were so enthused by the film at its release. The first section examines the way the use of American locations foregrounds the artificiality of Leone's spatial construction. The second explores the political implications of the inclusion of various minority groups, thereby r…
Tarantino's Round Flat Characters: A (Mainly) Verbal Study of Reservoir Dogs (1992).
2012
International audience; This article revisits E.M. Forster's distinction between round and flat characters in order to study the balancing between genre characters and realistic characters Tarantino's first film effects. It starts by examining the relationship between the fictional director of the heist (Joe Cabot), the other characters and the real director in a scene where Tarantino's cameo as a minor character endows the fictional director with authority and consequently emphasizes the shared dimension of filmmaking. The author then argues that the characters' capacity to identify and articulate flatness and rotundity in themselves and each other makes them appear round as it implies tha…
Metaliterārais vēstījums romānā „Džentelmeņa Tristrama Šendija dzīve un uzskati” un tā ekranizācija
2015
Maģistra darbā „Metaliterārais vēstījums romānā Džentlmeņa Tristrama Šendija dzīve un uzskati un tā ekranizācijā” ir veikts Lorensa Sterna literārā pirmavota un Maikla Vinterbotoma adaptācijas Tristrams Šendijs: stāsts par gaili un bulli metanaratīvu salīdzinājums. Darba mērķis ir atainot filmas un romāna metanaratīva aspektus un noteikt paņēmienus, kādi ir izmantoti metanaratīvu tekstā adaptējot romāna ekranizācijā. Teorētiskajā daļā ir sniegts izskaidrojums tādiem konceptiem kā metaliterārais un filmu naratīvs, fokalizācija, metaizācijas apstākļi, kā arī metatekstualitātes un metadaptāciju aspekti, kuri ir aktuāli analizējot Tristramu Šendiju. Empīriskajā daļā ir sniegtas atbildes uz pētī…
Brisures du romaneque: 'La Malédiction de la Madone', ou d'une pratique ironique du docufiction.
2023
La Malédiction de la Madone, pubblicato nel 2022, è il primo romanzo in cui Philippe Vilain, scrittore tra i maggiori rappresentanti dell’autofinzione, ab- bandona la narrazione in prima persona per un “docufiction” in terza persona basato sulla vita della camorrista Pupetta Maresca. questo cambio di rotta, an- cor più sorprendente per un autore come Vilain che aveva sempre vilipeso que- sto genere letterario, è occasione di mettere in questione le sue concezioni del romanzo e della letteratura. Ne vien fuori una narrazione tesa tra l’aspirazione a far corpo unico con la sua precedente produzione letteraria e le condizioni im- poste dalla “docufinzionalizzazione” della storia. La Maléd…
Metafikcija un intertekstualitāte Lemonija Sniketa "Nelaimīgo notikumu virknē"
2019
Šī bakalaura darba mērķis ir pētīt metafikcijas un intertekstualitātes izmantojumu literatūrā un to, kā tās pielietotas Lemonija Sniketa darbos, īpašu vērību veltot tieši metafiktīvo elementu analīzei. Metodes, kas tiek izmantotas šajā darbā, ir teorētiskās literatūras apskatīšana un “Nelaimīgo notikumu virknes” grāmatu praktiskā analīze. Rezultāti liecina, ka šajā darbā vēstītājs bieži uzrunā lasītāju tieši gan paskaidrojot vēstījumu, gan daloties zināšanām, gan iekļaujot intertekstuālus elementus tā palielinot lasītāja izpratni un radot vēstītāja klātesamības efektu, šķietami nojaucot robežu starp vēstītāju un lasītāju. Tā kā Snikets ir pieaugušais, kurš raksta galvenokārt bērniem domātus…
The Romanian Academic Novel and Film through the Postcommunism/Postcolonialism Lens
2019
The last two decades have witnessed an intensified academic interest in a potential rapprochement between Postcolonial Studies and Postcommunist Studies, the former a firmly established discipline in global academia, while the existence of the latter as a discipline in its own right is still debatable. As the possibility of this alliance is – as was to be expected – both contested and supported by various scholars, this article attempts to investigate this issue as illustrated by the postcommunist Romanian academic novel. Aware as it is of contemporary intellectual debates, the genre of the academic (or campus) novel seems particularly suitable for shedding light on the matter: academic fic…
French Fries, French Foxes and Crazy Frenchmen in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction (1994) and Roger Avary's Killing Zoe (1994) : Reading Hollywood “F…
2010
International audience; This article focuses on the representation of Frenchness in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction and Roger Avary's Killing Zoe, which were both released in 1994 and made by directors who regularly collaborated at the time. The treatment of Frenchness is different in both films, Pulp Fiction containing several anecdotal references and one French character, while Killing Zoe takes place in France with an almost exclusively European cast. The representation of Frenchness in these films will be my starting point to determine the readings possible for a spectator who is or is not familiar with French and French culture. “Frenchness,” which Pierre Verdaguer has shown is genera…