The end of history in English historiographic metafiction

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dc.contributor.advisor Gregori, Flavio it_IT
dc.contributor.author Mandricardo, Alice <1982> it_IT
dc.date.accessioned 2011-07-27T10:34:51Z it_IT
dc.date.accessioned 2012-07-30T16:04:51Z
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dc.date.issued 2011-03-14 it_IT
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10579/1121 it_IT
dc.description.abstract The main task in this thesis is to define the relationship between the philosophical concept of “the end of history” and postmodernist understanding and critique of history in English “historiographic metafiction”. I consider the end of history both as an important feature of postmodern culture and a suitable topic through which contemporary fiction can be analysed. I refer to Alexandre Kojève’s reading of Hegelian dialectics and to Francis Fukuyama’s optimistic interpretation of the end of history in order to introduce the philosophical debate on the end of history and explain the context within which postmodern novelists write. The novelists I examine jettison the end of history thesis as a metanarrative and produce critical histories through postmodernist modes of representation. I dwell particularly on twelve novels and their different ways to represent history and its end. it_IT
dc.description.abstract L’obiettivo principale di questa tesi è definire il rapporto tra il concetto filosofico di “fine della storia” e il modo in cui la storia e la sua fine possono essere interpretate nella “historiographic metafiction” inglese. Considero la fine della storia sia come un aspetto caratteristico della cultura postmoderna sia come un valido argomento per analizzare la narrativa contemporanea. Prendo in esame la lettura della dialettica hegeliana da parte di Alexandre Kojève e l’interpretazione ottimistica della fine della storia di Francis Fukuyama al fine di introdurre il dibattito filosofico sulla fine della storia e di spiegare il contesto in cui scrivono gli scrittori postmoderni. Gli scrittori a cui ho rivolto la mia attenzione respingono la tesi della fine della storia e producono delle riscritture critiche della storia attraverso tecniche di rappresentazione postmoderne. Mi soffermo in particolare su dodici romanzi e sul loro modo di raccontare la storia e la sua fine. it_IT
dc.format.medium Tesi cartacea it_IT
dc.language.iso en it_IT
dc.publisher Università Ca' Foscari Venezia it_IT
dc.rights © Alice Mandricardo, 2011 it_IT
dc.subject History it_IT
dc.subject Metafiction it_IT
dc.subject Postmodernism it_IT
dc.title The end of history in English historiographic metafiction it_IT
dc.type Doctoral Thesis it_IT
dc.degree.name Linguistica e filologia moderna it_IT
dc.degree.level Dottorato di ricerca it_IT
dc.degree.grantor Scuola di dottorato in Lingue, culture e società it_IT
dc.description.academicyear 2009/2010 it_IT
dc.description.cycle 23 it_IT
dc.degree.coordinator Mamoli Zorzi, Rosella it_IT
dc.location.shelfmark D001051 it_IT
dc.location Venezia, Archivio Università Ca' Foscari, Tesi Dottorato it_IT
dc.rights.accessrights openAccess it_IT
dc.thesis.matricno 955487 it_IT
dc.format.pagenumber II, 300 p. it_IT
dc.subject.miur L-LIN/10 LETTERATURA INGLESE it_IT
dc.description.tableofcontent INTRODUCTION CHAPTER ONE The Philosophical Debate on the End of History 1.1 On History and its Meaning(s) 1.2 Kojève’s Dialectics and End of History 1.3 Fukuyama’s Welcome to the End of History CHAPTER TWO The Postmodern Answer to the End of History 2.1 The End of the Enlightenment Trust 2.2 Goodbye Metanarratives 2.3 How to Make Sense of the Past (?) 2.4 Post-history without Meaning: the System of Production and Consumption and the End of Experience 100 2.5 Historiographic Metafiction: Framing History in Fiction 108 CHAPTER THREE Literary Interpretations of History and of its End 3.1 Dredging up the Past: Graham Swift’s Shuttlecock - Waterland - Last Orders 3.2 Making History more Accessible: Julian Barnes’s Flaubert’s Parrot - A History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters - England, England 3.3 Is This the End? An Analysis of Doris Lessing’s The Memoirs of a Survivor, Anthony Burgess’s The End of the World News, and Martin Amis’s Time’s Arrow, or the Nature of the Offence CHAPTER FOUR A Question of Roots and a Way to Multiculturalism 4.1 National History and Individual Fate in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children 4.2 Englishness, Tradition and Hybrid Identities in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth and Andrea Levy’s Small Island CONCLUSION BIBLIOGRAPHY Primary Sources Secondary Sources Journals Consulted it_IT
dc.identifier.bibliographiccitation Mandricardo, Alice: "The end of history in English historiographic metafiction", Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, tesi di dottorato, XXIII ciclo, 2011 it_IT


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