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Gregori, Flavio |
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Mandricardo, Alice <1982> |
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2011-07-27T10:34:51Z |
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2012-07-30T16:04:51Z |
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2011-07-27T10:34:51Z |
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2012-07-30T16:04:51Z |
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2011-03-14 |
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http://hdl.handle.net/10579/1121 |
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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. |
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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. |
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Tesi cartacea |
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en |
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Università Ca' Foscari Venezia |
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© Alice Mandricardo, 2011 |
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History |
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Metafiction |
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Postmodernism |
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The end of history in English historiographic metafiction |
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Doctoral Thesis |
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Linguistica e filologia moderna |
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Dottorato di ricerca |
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Scuola di dottorato in Lingue, culture e società |
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2009/2010 |
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23 |
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Mamoli Zorzi, Rosella |
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D001051 |
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Venezia, Archivio Università Ca' Foscari, Tesi Dottorato |
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openAccess |
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dc.thesis.matricno |
955487 |
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II, 300 p. |
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L-LIN/10 LETTERATURA INGLESE |
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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 |
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dc.identifier.bibliographiccitation |
Mandricardo, Alice: "The end of history in English historiographic metafiction", Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, tesi di dottorato, XXIII ciclo, 2011 |
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