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La post-fantasy: il ciclo letterario Inquisitore Eymerich di Valerio Evangelisti come una realizzazione dell’elemento fantastico tramite la narrazione postmoderna

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Przełucka P.

Romanica Silesiana

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2020

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vol. 17

69-80

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This article examines the literary series of Inquisitore Eymerich by Valerio Evangelisti, a variegated macronarrative, which, resisting generic classification, introduces innovation to the panorama of contemporary Italian fantasy. Departing from the analysis of the salient features of the series such as intertextuality, hybridization, storiographic metafiction, and transfictionality, the article examines closely the areas of postmodern narration and inquires into the role of the fantastic element in Italian literature. Evangelisti makes the most of postmodern narrative strategies and of fantasy’s ability to penetrate various media in order to provide a tool of critical reflection on human history with an emphasis on the phenomenology of power. By interweaving different literary genres and inviting readers to produce their own interpretations in form of fan fiction, Evangelisti creates a new type of committed narrative, post-fantasy, which presents a new conception of postmodern narrative, one that overcomes the barrier between the literary fiction and the genre fiction.

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Записная книжка писателя и литература постмодернизма: точки сближения

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Ефимова С.

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Rossica

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2012

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issue 5

100-110

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This article begins with a brief characterization of the writer’s notebook as a special text type. Then the article analyzes structural and compositional features that notebooks of the 19th and 20th centuries have in common with postmodernist prose. These features include: a) fragmentary narration; chaotic composition; many syntactic and semantic ellipses; b) the absence of one main idea and an important role of chance in the creative process; c) an opportunity to start reading a text from any of its parts, even from the end; d) a great number of intertextual links; similarity to hypertext; e) no stylistic and thematic limitations, etc. There are three possible explanations of these points of convergence: a psychological one, a linguistic one and a historical-literary one.

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Muriel Spark’s Employment of Burlesque: Parody of Detective Fiction in Not to Disturb

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Ertin S.

Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature

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2017

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vol. 41

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issue 1

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Der Band enthält die Abstracts ausschließlich in englischer Sprache.

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Parody contributes to the improvement of literary genres since it is the key to various popular subgenres as in the case of the development of detective fiction. Muriel Spark’s Not to Disturb, among the contemporary examples of parody of detective stories, is about a group of sinister servants in a Swiss chateu awaiting impatiently the bloody deaths of their employers, dictating memoirs and even selling the fim rights beforehand. Analysed in terms of its plot structure, characterisation and setting, the novel proves to be a brilliant example of parody of detective stories.

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Le numéro contient uniquement les résumés en anglais.

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Том не содержит аннотаций на английском языке.

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W hołdzie dla Diderota. Milan Kundera, Kubuś Fatalista i ich pan

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Gawarecka A.

Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne

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2018

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issue 15

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In his meta-literary and para-textual statements, Milan Kundera has been frequently turning to the issue of the enlightenment narrative experiments considered as the initial ones for the twentieth-century (post)modern creative strategies. Those experiments resulted from the striving for suppression of the over-prescription characterized the classicist rules, and they managed to direct attention to the literary genres which were undermined by the Enlightenment era that is in other words and above all, novel. In order to reveal this “modernity” of the eighteenth-century prose, the Czech writer in the work entitled Jacques and his master (1971) performed a “cultural translation” (variation) of the famous text by Diderot into the form of drama. Kundera was focused on the devices used by the French encyclopaedist which enabled him to expose the “evidence of trick” regarding the anti-illusion and fictitious character of literary representation of the world. He was, therefore, interested not so much in the philosophical and ideological background of Diderot’s tale dedicated to the romances of Jacques the Fatalist, but in the author’s freedom in his “play with the romance’s conventions” which even then was undergoing the process of fast schematisation.

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Tilting at Numbers: A Critical Analysis of the Quixotic Attitudes and Picaresque Undertones in Ramsey Campbell’s The Count of Eleven

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Zasada O.

Świat i Słowo

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2023

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vol. 41

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issue 2

401-419

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Ramsey Campbell, whose illustrious writing career began as a result of being introduced to the eldritch works of H.P. Lovecraft, is frequently referred to as one of the most prolific authors in the field of British horror. However, the motifs, literary structures, and character archetypes found in his writings often stem from other genres. With this background in mind, this article undertakes a critical analysis of The Count of Eleven, one of Campbell’s best-known works, through a dual spectrum of picaresque traditions and quixotic mentalities. The initial aim of this process is to assess the depth and breadth of the conceptual interconnections that exist between Campbell’s novel and Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote – one of the cornerstones of pícaro-focused storytelling. This will allow for an estimation of the effectiveness with which the British writer employs picaresque ideas to achieve narrative goals usually associated with works of horror and social commentaries. It will also provide insight into the current pop and sociocultural relevance of the literary concepts discussed and about the validity of the pícaro archetype in the contemporary Western mediascape.

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Uta von Naumburg – eine „deutsche Ikone“ aus dem Mittelalter? Figurationen des Weiblichen im deutschen postmodernen Roman am Beispiel von Claudia und Nadja Beinerts Die Herrin der Kathedrale

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Dampc-Jarosz R.

Germanica Wratislaviensia

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2018

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vol. 143

75 - 88

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Uta von Naumburg, die Gattin des Markgrafen Ekkehard II. von Meißen, lebte wahrscheinlich zwischen 1000 und 1043. In der deutschen Kulturtradition erfreut sie sich einer gewissen Popularität, jedoch nicht als eine historische Gestalt, sondern als Steinfigur im Westchor des Naumburger Domes. In den 30er Jahren des 20. Jahrhunderts wurde sie zum Symbol der deutschen Weiblichkeit erhoben und im nationalsozialistischen Sinne mythisiert. Von der Rezeption der Stifterin des Naumburger Domes ausgehend, strebt der vorliegende Beitrag an, am Beispiel des postmodernen historischen Romans von Claudia und Nadja Beinerts Die Herrin der Kathedrale (2013) die De-Mythisierungsstrategie von Utas Figur zu präsentieren. Eine wichtige Rolle wird dabei den mittelalterlichen Weiblichkeits- und Machtvorstellungen zugemessen, die in die postmoderne Narrativik des Vergangenen eingebettet sind.

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Uta von Naumburg, wife of margrave Ekkehard II from Meissen, probably lived from 1000 to 1043 AD. In the German cultural tradition she is not known as a historical figure, but as a stone statue from the Naumburg Cathedral. In the 1930s she became a symbol of German femininity and was made a heroine of the National Socialist myth. Beginning with the historical figure of Uta, this article will show the strategies used to demythologize the founder of the cathedral, based on the postmodern novel Die Herrin der Kathedrale (2013), written by Claudia and Nadja Beinert. The authors present the ways of the deconstruction of the medieval paradigm of femininity with the help of narrative strategies.

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