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"The whole world in a book" : fact, fiction and the postmodern in Selected Works by E. L. Doctorow
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 135-143).
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/10819 "The whole world in a book" : fact, fiction and the postmodern in Selected Works by E. L. Doctorow Housdon, Beth Marx, Lesley English Language and Literature Includes bibliographical references (leaves 135-143). This dissertation considers the manner in which the thematic and stylistic interests displayed in E. L. Doctorow's fiction derive from the postmodern context in which he works. Encapsulating the spirit of subversion so typical of postmodernism, Doctorow not only questions established modes of perception, but reinvigorates cultural and social traditions through the reformulation of customarily unchallenged norms and values. Departing from the conventions of traditional narrative, he emphasises the need for a continual critical interrogation and revision of absolutist grand narratives in order to achieve a more complex understanding of human experience. He grapples with concepts relating to the fluidity of meaning and the constructed nature of texts, deftly experimenting with narrative form in order to destabilise conventional perceptions of history, reality and representation. 2015-01-01T12:27:50Z 2015-01-01T12:27:50Z 2008 Master Thesis Masters MA http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10819 eng application/pdf Department of English Language and Literature Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
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| title | "The whole world in a book" : fact, fiction and the postmodern in Selected Works by E. L. Doctorow |
| title_full | "The whole world in a book" : fact, fiction and the postmodern in Selected Works by E. L. Doctorow |
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| title_short | "The whole world in a book" : fact, fiction and the postmodern in Selected Works by E. L. Doctorow |
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