Parodied Locations: A Play on Genre Conventions and Place in Flann O’Brien’s The Poor Mouth and Alasdair Gray’s Poor Things

• Authors: Szot Barbara
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Flann O’Brien in The Poor Mouth and Alasdair Gray in Poor Things use parody (of Gaeltacht memoirs and Gothic fiction respectively) to join in a discussion on literary representations of their homelands (Ireland and Scotland). This paper discusses the subversive play on the reader’s expectations regarding literary representation of places driven by previous knowledge of the parodied genre’s conventions which the two authors use to pinpoint the inadequacy of the hitherto existing literary tradition.

Keywords

EN

representation of place; parody; intertextuality

• Publisher: Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe, Stowarzyszenie
• Journal: Zagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 60
• Issue: 2 (122)
• Pages: 99-112

Dates

published

2017

Contributors

author

Szot Barbara

• Katedra anglistiky a amerikanistiky Filozofická fakulta, CZECH REPUBLIC

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ISSN

0084-4446