Postmodern Representation of Reality in Peter Ackroyd's Chatterton

Arya Aryan

Cambridge Scholars Publishing 

Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft

Beschreibung

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.

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