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From Postmodernism to Metamodernism
FROM POSTMODERNISM TO METAMODERNISM: CHANGING PERSPECTIVES TOWARDS IRONY AND METANARRATIVES IN JULIAN BARNES’S A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN 10 AND ½ CHAPTERS AND THE NOISE OF TIME A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES OF MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY BY MELTEM ATEŞ IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS IN ENGLISH LITERATURE SEPTEMBER 2019 Approval of the Graduate School of Social Sciences Prof. Dr. Yaşar Kondakçı Director I certify that this thesis satisfies all the requirements as a thesis for the degree of Master of Arts. Prof. Dr. Çiğdem Sağın Şimşek Head of Department This is to certify that we have read this thesis and that in our opinion it is fully adequate, in scope and quality, as a thesis for the degree of Master of Arts. Assist. Prof. Dr. Elif Öztabak Avcı Supervisor Examining Committee Members Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nil Korkut Naykı (METU, FLE) Assist. Prof. Dr. Elif Öztabak Avcı (METU, FLE) Assist. Prof. Dr. Selen Aktari Sevgi (Başkent Uni., AMER) I hereby declare that all information in this document has been obtained and presented in accordance with academic rules and ethical conduct. I also declare that, as required by these rules and conduct, I have fully cited and referenced all material and results that are not original to this work. Name, Last name : Meltem Ateş Signature : iii ABSTRACT FROM POSTMODERNISM TO METAMODERNISM: CHANGING PERSPECTIVES TOWARDS IRONY AND METANARRATIVES IN JULIAN BARNES’S A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN 10 AND ½ CHAPTERS AND THE NOISE OF TIME Ates, Meltem M.A., English Literature Supervisor: Assist. -
Julian Barnes
Julian Barnes Julian Barnes' work has been translated into more than thirty languages. In France, he is the only writer to have won both the Prix Medicis (for Flaubert's Parrot) and the Prix Femina (for Talking it Over). In 1993 he was awarded the Shakespeare Prize by the FVS Foundation of Hamburg. In 2011 he was awarded the David Cohen Prize for Literature, and he won the Man Booker Prize for The Sense of An Ending. He lives in London. Agents Sarah Ballard Associate [email protected] Eli Keren [email protected] 0203 214 0775 Publications Fiction Publication Notes Details THE ONLY Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer STORY the less? That is, I think, finally, the only real question. First love has lifelong 2018 consequences, but Paul doesn’t know anything about that at nineteen. At Jonathan Cape nineteen, he’s proud of the fact his relationship flies in the face of social convention. As he grows older, the demands placed on Paul by love become far greater than he could possibly have foreseen. Tender and wise, The Only Story is a deeply moving novel by one of fiction’s greatest mappers of the human heart. United Agents | 12-26 Lexington Street London W1F OLE | T +44 (0) 20 3214 0800 | F +44 (0) 20 3214 0801 | E [email protected] Publication Notes Details THE NOISE OF In May 1937 a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment TIME block. -
The Rhetoric of Irony in Julian Barnes's Novels
UNIVERSITATEA DIN CRAIOVA FACULTATEA DE LITERE ȘCOALA DOCTORALĂ „ALEXANDRU PIRU” THE RHETORIC OF IRONY IN JULIAN BARNES’S NOVELS SUMMARY Conducător științific, Prof. univ. dr. Victor OLARU Doctorand, Anca-Ioana VULCĂNESCU (VULCĂNESCU-FLOREA) Craiova 2020 SUMMARY Key words: Postmodernism, rhetoric, irony, Socratic irony, Derrida, Deconstructivism, Bakhtinian influences, carnivalization of literature, literary techniques, intertextuality, reinterpretation, narrative, reinterpreting history, carnival, sarcasm, parody, burlesque characters, hyperreal, simulacrum, irony and postmodernism, re-enactment of dandyism, Neo-Victorian influences. Julian Barnes is one of the writers who transgresses the narrative boundaries and rewrites the major themes of Early postmodernism, thus becoming a controversial figure. His narrative technique differs from the modernist one and we notice that he either deconstructs the narration replacing it with a state of mind, or goes beyond the boundaries of narratology, changing the structure, and impregnating it with irony. Barnes replaces the plot with a narrative game and his motto seems to be a simple one: ‘Let’s play with the characters, the plot… let’s play with everything.’ His changeable style, either journalistic or dramatic, constitutes an element of novelty that might puzzle the average reader. For example, in Flaubert’s Parrot, he starts by presenting a short history of literature, and re-writes it in an imaginary way: 2/3 of the story is real, while the rest is fictional. He never ceases to amaze us when he uses language as a means of transition and combines postmodernism with classical rhetorical features in order to obtain ironic situations. In The Porcupine he relies on both verbal and situational irony when he describes the activity of the Devinsky Comando. -
Literary Award-Winning Authors and Media Meta-Capital
Literary Award-Winning Authors and Media Meta-Capital: An Analysis of the Role of the Prize-Winning Authors of the Man Booker Prize, the Bord Gaís Irish Book Awards, the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Baileys Women’s Prize in Generating Media Capital Iris Nieuwenhuizen 3932311 Master Thesis Literature Today Supervisor: Dr. Anna Poletti Second Reader: Dr. Roselinde Supheert 22 December 2017 15.052 words (including quotations) TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 2 1. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK 8 LITERARY FIELD AND MEDIA META-CAPITAL 8 NATIONALITY, CULTURAL AND SOCIAL IDENTITY, AND GENDER 12 THE AUTHOR 17 2. NATIONALITY OF THE AUTHOR AND MEDIA CAPITAL 20 NATIONALITY OF THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHORS IN FEATURE ARTICLES 20 DISCUSSION OF NATIONALITY IN INTERVIEWS WITH AWARD-WINNING AUTHORS 23 NATIONALITY OF AWARD-WINNING NOVELS IN BOOK REVIEWS 26 3. CULTURAL AND SOCIAL IDENTITY OF THE AUTHOR AND MEDIA CAPITAL 29 SOCIAL AND CULTURAL IDENTITY OF AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR IN FEATURE ARTICLES 29 SOCIAL AND CULTURAL IDENTITY OF AWARD-WINNING AUTHORS IN INTERVIEWS 32 SOCIAL AND CULTURAL IDENTITY OF AWARD-WINNING AUTHORS IN BOOK REVIEWS 35 4. GENDER OF THE AUTHOR AND MEDIA META-CAPITAL 38 GENDER OF THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR IN FEATURE ARTICLES 38 GENDER OF THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR IN INTERVIEWS 41 GENDER OF AWARD-WINNING AUTHORS IN BOOK REVIEWS 44 CONCLUSION 46 BIBLIOGRAPHY 49 2 Introduction When walking into a bookshop it is difficult not to have your eye drawn to the covers; often a short statement or a sticker is placed on the cover to highlight the fact that the book has won a literary prize. -
Reader's Guide the Only Story Julian Barnes
Reader’s guide Stichting Senia Reader’s Guide The Only Story Julian Barnes Year of publication: 2018 Publisher: Jonathan Cape, Penguin Random House Genre: Literary Fiction Language: English ISBN: 9781787330696 Guide written by: ©Karen Turpie Edited by: English Literature Working Group Senia no. E18-02 Alle rechten voorbehouden. Niets uit deze uitgave mag worden verveelvoudigd, opgeslagen in een geautomatiseerd gegevensbestand, of openbaar gemaakt, in enige vorm of op enige wijze, hetzij elektronisch, mechanisch, door fotokopieën, opnamen, of enig andere manier zonder voorafgaande schriftelijke toestemming van de samensteller / Stichting Senia. A Reader’s guide to The Only Story – Julian Barnes SUMMARY Part One Paul Roberts considers his life story and wonders, “Would you rather love the more, suffer the more or love the less and suffer the less?” Paul is home from his first year of university for the three-month summer holiday and is visibly bored. His home is in a zone of genteel English, socially middle-class, stockbroker-belt suburban sprawl called the Village, situated some fifteen miles south of London. Paul’s mother suggests a temporary membership of the tennis club for the summer and will even pay for it, no doubt in the hope that Paul will meet a nice conservative girl. At a Lucky Dip Mixed Doubles tournament, he is paired together with Mrs. Susan Macleod, a woman in her late forties. She is around the same 5’9” height as Paul and attractive. They play doubles, win and then lose to county players. Paul finds himself to be a technically naïve player so Susan decides to call him Casey as he is a “case”. -
The 2014 Man Booker Prize Controversy
BACHELOR THESIS ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE THE 2014 MAN BOOKER PRIZE CONTROVERSY A BRITISH CULTURAL ICON UNDER A THREAT ESTHER VAN BUSSEL RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN SUPERVISOR: PROF. DR ODIN DEKKERS ESTHER VAN BUSSEL Van Bussel/s4332458/2 Essay Cover Sheet ENGELSE TAAL EN CULTUUR Teacher who will receive this document: Dr Odin Dekkers Title of document: Bachelor Thesis Man Booker Prize Name of course: BA Werkstuk Engelse Letterkunde Date of submission: 15 June 2017 The work submitted here is the sole responsibility of the undersigned, who has neither committed plagiarism nor colluded in its production. Signed Name of student: Esther van Bussel Student number: S4332458 Van Bussel/s4332458/3 Table of Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS 3 ABSTRACT 4 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 5 INTRODUCTION 6 CHAPTER 1: THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 10 CHAPTER 2: THE CONTROVERSY AND THE DEBATE 15 CHAPTER 3: A BOURDIEUSIAN ANALYSIS OF THE DEBATE 24 CONCLUSION 32 WORKS CITED 34 Van Bussel/s4332458/4 Abstract This thesis will study and discuss the controversy concerning the extension of the requirements for the Man Booker Prize, a literary prize established in the United Kingdom that is awarded every year to a novel of fiction written in the English language. The focus will be on the Man Booker Prize in 2014, which is deemed to be a controversial year as it was decided then that the entry requirements would be adjusted. The new rules state that any novel, as long as it is written in English and published in the United Kingdom in the same year of the prize, can be in the running for the Man Booker Prize. -
Disability, Heterosexuality and the Politics of Representation in Julian Barnes’S the Sense of an Ending Dr Rachel Carroll Teesside University
“Making the Blood Flow Backwards”: Disability, Heterosexuality and the Politics of Representation in Julian Barnes’s The Sense of an Ending Dr Rachel Carroll Teesside University Abstract In Julian Barnes’s 2011 Man Booker Prize winning novel, The Sense of an Ending, the discovery of a forgotten letter prompts the narrator, Tony Webster, to reconsider the suicide of a brilliant school friend, Adrian Finn. The dramatic revelation of the existence of Finn’s adult son (also called Adrian), borne of an extra-marital affair with his girlfriend’s mother, is presented as offering a possible answer to the mystery of Finn’s death. In this context, this article seeks to examine the representation of Finn’s adult son as a person with a learning disability. In their book Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse (2000), David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder critically examine the uses to which disability is put in narrative; this article will focus on the ways in which cognitive impairment is constructed in this novel. Depictions of disability in The Sense of an Ending will be situated within the context of representations of heterosexuality, reproductive sexuality and female sexuality; employing critical frameworks informed by both feminist and disability studies, this article will investigate the relationship between disability, maternal sexual transgression and discourses of normativity as represented in Barnes’s novel. Keywords: contemporary fiction; disability; learning disability; suicide; sexuality; heterosexuality; feminist theory; literary prizes. “Making the Blood Flow Backwards”: Disability, Heterosexuality and the Politics of Representation in Julian Barnes’s The Sense of an Ending The critical reception of Julian Barnes’s 2011 novel The Sense of an Ending was marked by a degree of discretion with regard to the dramatic revelation on which the novel hinges. -
The Sense of an Ending
Ryde Library Service Community Book Club Collection The sense of an ending By Julian Barnes First published in 2011 Genre & subject Male friendship - fiction Middle-aged men - fiction Memory - fiction Synopsis Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life. Now Tony is retired. Author biography Julian Patrick Barnes was born on January 19, 1946 in Leicester, England, UK. He is a contemporary English writer, and winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize, for his book The Sense of an Ending. Three of his earlier books had been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize: Flaubert's Parrot (1984), England, England (1998), and Arthur & George (2005). Barnes has written crime fiction under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh. Barnes is one of the best-loved English writers in France, where he has won several literary prizes, including the Prix Médicis for Flaubert’s Parrot and the Prix Femina for Talking It Over. He is an officer of L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Although Barnes was born in Leicester, his family moved to the outer suburbs of London six weeks later. Both of his parents were teachers of French. He has said that his support for Leicester City Football Club was, aged four or five, "a sentimental way of hanging on" to his home city. He was educated at the City of London School from 1957 to 1964. -
О.Б. Карасик Julian Barnes's a History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters
КАЗАНСКИЙ ФЕДЕРАЛЬНЫЙ УНИВЕРСИТЕТ ИНСТИТУТ ФИЛОЛОГИИ И МЕЖКУЛЬТУРНОЙ КОММУНИКАЦИИ Кафедра русской и зарубежной литературы О.Б. КАРАСИК JULIAN BARNES'S A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN 10 ½ CHAPTERS Учебно-методическое пособие Казань – 2018 УДК 82(091); 821.111(73) ББК 83.3(0); 83.3(0)6; 84(7) Принято на заседании учебно-методической комиссии Ученого совета ИФМК КФУ Протокол №5 от 30 января 2018 года Рецензенты: доктор филологических наук, профессор кафедры русской и зарубежной литературы КФУ Л.Ф. Хабибуллина; доктор филологических наук, профессор кафедры русской и зарубежной литературы Мордовского государственного университета им. Н.П. Огарева О.Е. Осовский Карасик О.Б. Julian Barnes’s A History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters / О.Б. Карасик. – Казань: Казан. ун-т, 2018. – 53 с. Учебно-методическое пособие предназначено для студентов старших курсов филологических и переводческих направлений, изучающих филологический анализ текста. Оно включает в себя задания к роману Дж. Барнса «История мира в 10 ½ главах», связанные с литературоведческим и лингвистическим анализом текста и переводом, задания для самостоятельной работы, а также дополнительные материалы. Предлагаемые задания соответствуют требованиям к государственному экзамену. © Карасик О.Б., 2018 © Казанский университет, 2018 JULIAN BARNES AND HIS BOOKS Julian Patrick Barnes (born 19 January 1946 in Leicester, England) is one of the most prominent contemporary British writers. He won the Man Booker Prize for his book The Sense of an Ending (2011). Three of his books had earlier been shortlisted for the Booker Prize (Flaubert’s Parrot, 2011; England, England, 1998; Arthur and George, 2005). He is also the author of crime fiction under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh. He was educated in the City of London School and Magdalen College, Oxford, and then worked as a lexicographer for the Oxford English Dictionary, journalist and television critic. -
Memory in Julian Barnes' the Sense of an Ending and Salman Rushdie's
IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science (IOSR-JHSS) e-ISSN : 2279-0837, p-ISSN : 2279-0845 PP 64-67 www.iosrjournals.org Memory in Julian Barnes’ the Sense of an Ending and Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children. M. Palani Kumar Assistant Professor,M.G.R. College,Dr. M.G.R. Nagar, Hosur Abstract: In any work of fiction, narration or narrative technique is given much importance and is often considered as the element which decides the success of that particular work. Narration has long been experimented by modern and post-modern writers. They created new modes of narrating stories and experiences and also opened up possibilities for different levels of reading and interpreting a work. They went to the level of destructing or denunciating the very narrative they worked on. The term “unreliable narrator” has long existed even before 20th century; however, it was the modern and post modern writers who gave readers a variety of different forms of unreliable narration. Among them, in particular, memory known for its trickiness has the ability to transform an account of an individual’s narration into an unreliable one. The fake memory alters the so called “true account” of narration into an erratic one, surprising both readers and narrator or the readers alone. This paper focuses on the unreliability of memory in Julian Barnes’ The Sense of an Ending and Salman Rusdie’s The Midnight’s Children. Key words: Narration, Narrative Technique, Unreliable narrator, Memory I. Introduction In their Introduction titled “Towards a Paradigm of Memory in Literature”, Benjamin Hart Fishkin, Adaku T.Ankumah, Festus Fru Ndeh, and Bill F. -
1 Modern Literature
MODERN LITERATURE 164 1 LOPEZBOOKS.COM KEN LOPEZ BOOKSELLER MODERN LITERATURE 164 2 MODERN LITERATURE 164 Ken Lopez, Bookseller 51 Huntington Rd. Hadley, MA 01035 (413) 584-4827 FAX (413) 584-2045 1. ABBEY, Edward. Beyond the Wall. NY: HRW (1984). [email protected] The hardcover issue of this collection of short nonfiction pieces by the author of The Monkey Wrench Gang and the environmental classic www.lopezbooks.com Desert Solitaire. This copy is inscribed by Abbey to Peter Matthiessen in the year of publication: “For Peter Matthiessen/ from a long-time fan, Ed Abbey/ Tucson ‘84/ — you keep yours up too, man.” Laid CATALOG 164 -- MODERN LITERATURE in (by Matthiessen) is a copy of Abbey’s 1989 obituary, dated in Matthiessen’s hand. An extraordinary association copy: Matthiessen All books are first printings of the first edition or first American edition unless otherwise noted. was an inspiring figure to environmentalists who came of age in the Our highest grade is fine. 1960s and ‘70s: his 1959 book, Wildlife in America, chronicled the negative ecological impact of European settlement on the North New arrivals are first listed on our website. For automatic email notification about specific titles, American continent, and many of his books were in the field of natural please create an account at our website and enter your want list. To be notified whenever we post history, indigenous peoples, wildlife and the environment. Abbey, of new arrivals, just send your email address to [email protected]. course, was an outspoken activist for wilderness and a provocateur: The Monkey Wrench Gang is credited with inspiring the founding of Books can be ordered through our website or reserved by phone or e-mail. -
Creative Writing at Corpus Christi College
Saturday 24 th to Friday 30 th March 2 012 Creative Writing at Corpus Christi College FINDING THE PLOT : A COURSE FOR ASPIRING FICTION WRITERS www.oxfordliteraryfestival.com S R Creative Writing at Corpus Christi College E T I R FINDING THE PLOT : A COURSE FOR ASPIRING FICTION WRITERS W - N The Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival has The course offers five full teaching days and O I a well-deserved reputation for enterprise and six nights of college accommodation. There T C innovation, and the 2008 festival saw the may be the opportunity to sign up for a further I F introduction of a particularly exciting short period of college accommodation, at a G initiative: a five-day college-based residential reasonable additional cost: this will allow N I course offering an opportunity for aspiring participants to continue their writing practice R I fiction-writers to hone their skills in the beyond the time-frame of the course itself, or P company of eminent authors and other to attend some of the festival’s other events. S A representatives of the literary world. Oxford has helped to nurture the talents of R Now in its fifth year, the course has many well-known writers of fiction: among the O F established itself as a firm fixture. Providing a University’s alumni are Evelyn Waugh, Graham E series of five two-hour tutor-led workshops, Greene, Aldous Huxley, William Golding, S R together with a series of ten one-hour talks Kingsley Amis, V. S. Naipaul, Martin Amis and U (masterclasses) given by eminent novelists Julian Barnes.