Título: The symbol made text: Charles Palliser's postmodernist re-writing of Dickens in The Quincunx
Autores: Onega Jaén, Susana
Fecha: 2008-06-05
2008-06-05
1993-11
Publicador: RUA Docencia
Fuente:
Tipo: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Tema: Literatura inglesa
Novela
Palliser, Charles
The Quincunx
Dickens, Charles
Influencia
Sociedad victoriana
Posmodernismo
Descripción: Early reviewers of The Quincunx (1989) immediately recognised the novel's striking stylistic and thematic indebtedness to Dickens and to other early Victorian writers, a fact that led them to describe Charles Palliser's first novel as a brilliant attempt to reproduce an early Victorian novel. However, closer examination reveals that The Quincunx is not merely a belated imitation of Victorian fiction, but rather a neatly structured, symbolically complex and highly self-conscious parody of it, in line with other contemporary historiographic metafictions, like The French Lieutenant's Woman or The Name of the Rose, and expresses Palliser's own postmodernist world-view.
The research carried out for the writing of this paper has been financed by the Spanish Ministry of Education (DGICYT, Programa Sectorial de Promoción General del Conocimiento, no. PS90-0117).
Idioma: Inglés

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