Literary Doubling in Self-Conscious Fiction: Nin, H.D., Quin, Brophy and Acker".
| Thesis title in Czech: | "Literární dvojakost v metafikční próze: Nin, H.D., Quin, Brophy a Acker." |
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| Thesis title in English: | Literary Doubling in Self-Conscious Fiction: Nin, H.D., Quin, Brophy and Acker". |
| Key words: | 20th century fiction|Anais Nin|H.D.|Ann Quin|Brigid Brophy|Kathy Acker|Literární dvojakost|metafikce|feministická kritika|psychoanalýza|ženské autorky |
| English key words: | Literary doubling|Literary doubles|Meta fiction|20th century fiction|Anais Nin|H.D.|Ann Quin|Brigid Brophy|Kathy Acker|Feminist criticism|Psychoanalysis|Women's writing |
| Academic year of topic announcement: | 2015/2016 |
| Thesis type: | Bachelor's thesis |
| Thesis language: | angličtina |
| Department: | Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (21-UALK) |
| Supervisor: | Mgr. David Vichnar, Ph.D. |
| Author: | hidden - assigned and confirmed by the Study Dept. |
| Date of registration: | 01.06.2016 |
| Date of assignment: | 01.06.2016 |
| Administrator's approval: | not processed yet |
| Confirmed by Study dept. on: | 09.06.2016 |
| Date and time of defence: | 30.01.2018 09:00 |
| Date of electronic submission: | 08.01.2018 |
| Date of proceeded defence: | 30.01.2018 |
| Submitted/finalized: | committed by student and finalized |
| Opponents: | prof. PhDr. Martin Procházka, CSc. |
| Guidelines |
| In my bachelor’s thesis I would like to focus on the following five texts: Anais Nin’s Winter of Artifice, H.D.’s Tribute to Freud, Ann Quin’s Berg, Brigid Brophy’s In Transit and Kathy Acker’s Kathy Goes to Haiti. These novels will be taken as representatives of self-conscious fiction, or metafiction, an important kind of writing characteristic of 20th-century experimental fiction. Particular stress will be on the technique of literary doubling in these novels, their conception of the relationship between reality and fiction and the degree of authenticity/artificiality in both. I will focus on the implicit doubles of real-life personages in Winter of Artifice, autobiography as a virtual doubling of real figures in written form (Tribute to Freud), the doubling of characters in Berg and In Transit and the doubling of the author in Kathy Goes to Haiti. Self-conscious fiction thus shows the fictiveness of reality. On one hand, biographies and autobiographies seem to oppose artificiality. On the other, the appearance of the author as a character in a narrative that is obviously fictitious questions the truthfulness of that narrative. This artificiality will be explored through the following theoretical contexts and thematic concerns: 1. Rhetoric – in which way the artificiality is achieved; structural and textual features of the novels. Question of language – limits of one’s language define the limits of one’s self (Waugh). 2. Feminist criticism – what does the doubling represent and how is it manifested in women’s writing specifically? Are there distinct oppositions to the predominately masculine character of the Western discourse? 3. Psychoanalysis – doubling as fiction created to affirm the self. Characters are reflections of people in the novels, just as fictions imitate reality – or is it reality that imitates fiction? Roles vs. Selves. |
| References |
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