The making of illusion and the "suspension of disbelief" in postmodern spirit The Reflection of Contemporary Literary Theories in Woody Allen's The Kugelmass Episode /
This thesis looks at the relationship between four characteristic features of postmodern literary texts in general and, more specifically, Woody Allen's short story The Kugelmass Episode. Chapter 1 explores the background, evolution, and a newly-developed form of selfreflexivity (specifically &...
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2001
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| Kulcsszavak: | Woody Allen The Kugelmass Episode self-reflexivity metafiction intertextuality hypertext postmodernism contemporary literary theories textual positions |
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| Online Access: | http://diploma.bibl.u-szeged.hu/76483 |
| Tartalmi kivonat: | This thesis looks at the relationship between four characteristic features of postmodern literary texts in general and, more specifically, Woody Allen's short story The Kugelmass Episode. Chapter 1 explores the background, evolution, and a newly-developed form of selfreflexivity (specifically "designed" for postmodern texts). I also touch on the somewhat problematic relationship between fiction (art) and reality (life) in terms ofthe conventions of realism, as well as the conscious nature of self-reflexive narratives. The investigation of this theme from different angles forms an organic part ofeach chapter, in 2/b and 5 in particular. Chapter 2 examines metafictional tendencies and their implications for the authorial power and - also under a separate subchapter in the following section - the role ofthe reader within the author-text-reader triangle. I briefly discuss the sometimes difficult reception of metafictional works by the literary community too, and referring to contemporary theories, I look at how these texts are read differently from traditional literature. Chapter 3 investigates the notion of intertextuality in its tight and broad sense, and is seen - along with self-reflexivity and metafiction - to be a literary response to postmodernism and its "crisis" ofrepresentation. Chapter 4 sets out to explore hypertext, not as a technical phenomenon but that of the nonlinear tradition, in an attempt to outline the main issues within the emerging field ofstudies of the reception and reading process. In Chapter 5 I examine the applicability of contemporary literary theories for the interpretation of Woody Allen's short story, and also the reflection of the postmodern narrative strategies discussed throughout the previous chapters. |
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