The postmodern representation of reality in Peter Ackroyd's Chatterton / Arya Aryan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aryan, Arya, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reality in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (118 pages)

Place of Publication:

England : Cambridge Scholars Publisher, [2022]

Summary:

This book explores the postmodernist representation of reality and argues that historiographic metafictional texts, such as Peter Ackroyd's Chatterton (1987), are hetero-referential in their creation of a heterocosm, as opposed to representational and anti-representational views of art. It argues that postmodernist historiographic metafiction is not simply self-referential, but hetero-referential, consciously revealing the paradoxes of self-referentiality while simultaneously creating a heterocosmic world where the text is capable of referring to an external reality. The book highlights Chatterton's narrative strategies and techniques which result in revealing the text's meaning-granting process. The novel acknowledges the existence of reality and the text's possibility of representation, but contends that reality is a human construct. In addition, the book demonstrates that representation is possible through fictive referents, and thus hetero-referential.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Chapter One

Historiographic Metafiction

Anti-representation/ Anti-referentiality

Representation/ Referentiality

Heterocosm

Mise en abyme

Emplotment

Paratextuality

Parody

Self-reflexivity

Under Erasure

Postmodernist Re-presentation

Chapter Two

Introduction to Postmodern Theories

The Representation of Reality and its Critique

The Problematisation of the Representation of Reality

The Problematisation of the Representation of Reality through Narrative Techniques and Strategies

Chapter Three

Introduction

Chatterton as a Heterocosmic Text The Problematisation of the Investigation for Historical Truth

History under Erasure

The Problematisation of Representationality in Literary Realism with Regard to Narrative Conventions

Chapter Four

Boundaries Blurred

Meaning as a Process

Chapter Five

Bibliography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Aryan, Arya The Postmodern Representation of Reality in Peter Ackroyd's Chatterton

ISBN:

9781527584976