SOME TECHNIQUES OF HISTORIOGRAPHIC METAFICTION IN THE NOVEL FLAUBERT’S PARROT BY JULIAN BARNES
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Jun 12, 2023
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techniques, historiographic metafiction, Flaubert’s Parrot (novel), Julian Barnes, interpretation
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This research is based on the interest to critically analyze and elaborate some of the techniques of historiographic metafiction that are present in the novel Flaubert’s parrot(1984) by Julian Barnes. The paper explores the hypothesis on how some techniques used in the aforementioned novel, such as fictionalizing Flaubert’s biography, the leap from the intended biography of Flaubert to an “unintended” autobiography of the narrator Braithwaite, the mixture of different citations and intertextuality, reflect how the past, history, literature and truth are perceived. The hypothesis uses the methods of analysis and synthesis. The conclusion should show us that the past and history are available in the form of written texts, that there is not just one, but many truths in the novel, that fact and fiction coexist and their borders are not erased, but rather blurred, and that a great deal of the book can be read as a parody of the biography genre.
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Dimovska, Kristina. 2023. “SOME TECHNIQUES OF HISTORIOGRAPHIC METAFICTION IN THE NOVEL FLAUBERT’S PARROT BY JULIAN BARNES”. Journal of Contemporary Philology 6 (1), 63–75. https://doi.org/10.37834/JCP2361063d.
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Ѓорѓиева Димова, М. (2016). (Кон)текстуални селидби, ко-текстуални средби. Филолошки студии, годиште XIV, бр. 1, стр. 43–54. [Ǵorǵieva Dimova, M. (2016). (Kon)tekstualni selidbi, ko-tekstualni sredbi. Filološki studii, godište XIV, br. 1, str. 43–54].
Ѓорѓиева Димова, М. (2017). За атрактивноста на еден жанр (книжевните, книжевно-теориските и книжевно-историските импликации на историографската метафикција). Зборник на трудови од Втората меѓународна научна конференција Филко, филологија, култура и образование, 10–12 мај, Воронеж, 129–138. [Ǵorǵieva Dimova, M. (2017). Za atraktivnosta na eden žanr (kniževnite, kniževno-teoriskite i kniževno-istoriskite implikacii na istoriografskata metafikcija). Zbornik na trudovi na Vtorata meǵunarodna naučna konferencija Filko, filologija, kultura i obrazovanie, 10–12 maj, Voronež, 129–138].
Ѓорѓиева Димова, М. (2018). Интердискурзивните перформанси на книжевноста. Современа филологија 1 (1), 111–28. https://doi.org/10.37834/JCP1810111gd. [Ǵorǵieva Dimova, M. (2018). Interdiskurzivnite performansi na kniževnosta. Sovremena filologija 1 (1), 111–28. https://doi.org/10.37834/JCP1810111gd].
Barnes, J. (1984). Flaubert’s Parrot. New York: Vintage International.
Barns, Dž. (2011). Floberov papagaj. Banja Luka: Biblioner.
Drag, W. (2007). The search is all?: the Pursuit of Meaning in Julian Barnes’ ‘Flaubert’s Parrot’, Staring at the Sun and A History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters. Master Thesis. University of Glamorgan.
Hutcheon, L. (2000). [1985]. A Theory of Parody – the Teachings of Twentieth-Century Art Forms. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press.
Hutcheon, L. (2004). [1988]. A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction. New York and London: Routledge.
McHale, B. (2004) [1987]. Postmodernist Fiction. London & New York: Routledge.
Scott, J. B. (1990). Parrots as Paradigms: Infinite Deferral of Meaning in Flaubert’s Parrot. ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature, 21: 3, July, 57–68.
Peković, S. (1991). Parodija. Rečnik književnih termina. Živković, D. (ur.). Бања Лука: Романов, 570–571.
Stott, C. (2010). The Sound of Truth. Constructed and Reconstructed Lives. Tectum Verlag Marburg.
Waugh, P. (2001). [1984]. Metafiction – the Theory and Practice of Self-conscious Fiction (New Accents). London & New York: Taylor & Francis e-Library.
Tang, Y. (2019). Character Narration and Fictionality in Julian Barnes’s Flaubert’s Parrot. [Интернет]. A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics, vol. IX, 176–189. Available from: https://cutt.ly/y3wAEPo
[Accessed: February the 2nd, 2023].
Winsworth, B. (2005). The Dynamics of Negation in Flaubert’s Parrot. [Интернет]. Vernon, P. & Raynaud, C. (eds.). L’Allusion et l’Accès. Presses universitaires François-Rabelais. Available from: https://cutt.ly/O3wUcqN [Accessed: February the 2nd, 2023].
Ѓорѓиева Димова, М. (2014). Толкувачки поликонтекстуализации (Мојот Скендербеј на Драги Михајловски во контекст на постмодерната книжевност и историографија). [Интернет]. Филолошки студии, 12(2), 267–279. Достапно на: https://cutt.ly/j9KXXAJ [Пристапено на: 01.02.2023]. [Ǵorǵieva Dimova, M. (2014). Tolkuvački polikontekstualizacii (Mojot Skenderbej na Dragi Mihajlovski vo kontekst na podtmodernata kniževnost i istoriografija)]. [Internet] [Filološki studii 12(2), 267–279. Dostapno na: https://cutt.ly/j9KXXAJ [Pristapeno na: 01.02.2023].
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