Elementy powieści postmodernistycznej w Magu Johna Fowlesa

• Authors: Boryszewski Wojciech

Title variants

EN

Elements of a postmodernist novel in The Magus by John Fowles

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The purpose of the article is to prove that The Magus, despite being quite traditional in its form, has a lot of features of a postmodernist novel. The author begins with explaining the term postmodernism and the most characteristic features of a postmodernist novel. These features include such phenomena as intertextuality, metafiction and eclectism which manifests itself, among others, in generic syncretism. The novel makes use of intertextuality, as it refers to a great number of various texts. One of its major themes is fiction itself, which makes the novel an example of metafiction. It also blends elements of a few different genres, such as romance (chivalric, pastoral and picaresque), Bildungsroman, detective story, autobiography and masque.

Keywords

PL

postmodernizm; intertekstualność; metafikcja; eklektyzm

EN

postmodernism; intertextuality; metafiction; eclectism

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie
• Journal: Prace Literaturoznawcze
• Year: 2013
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 167-178

Contributors

author

Boryszewski Wojciech

• Instytut Filologii Poskiej Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego