Theme of Memory in Julian Barnes’ Later Works
| Thesis title in Czech: | Motiv paměti v pozdější tvorbě Juliana Barnese |
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| Thesis title in English: | Theme of Memory in Julian Barnes’ Later Works |
| Key words: | paměť|Julian Barnes|postmodernismus |
| English key words: | memory|Julian Barnes|postmodernism |
| Academic year of topic announcement: | 2017/2018 |
| Thesis type: | Bachelor's thesis |
| Thesis language: | angličtina |
| Department: | Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (21-UALK) |
| Supervisor: | PhDr. Zdeněk Beran, Ph.D. |
| Author: | hidden - assigned and confirmed by the Study Dept. |
| Date of registration: | 11.06.2018 |
| Date of assignment: | 11.06.2018 |
| Administrator's approval: | not processed yet |
| Confirmed by Study dept. on: | 11.06.2018 |
| Date and time of defence: | 05.09.2019 08:30 |
| Date of electronic submission: | 14.08.2019 |
| Date of proceeded defence: | 05.09.2019 |
| Submitted/finalized: | committed by student and finalized |
| Opponents: | Colin Steele Clark, M.A. |
| Guidelines |
| Julian Barnes belongs to a generation of very talented British writers born in the 1940s including Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Martin Amis or Graham Swift. He is sometimes called the “chameleon novelist,” having written works of various forms and genres, experimenting with essayistic style mixed with fiction; historical novel, biography, memoir, or even crime novel. There have been numerous discussions among literary critics concerning the definition of Barnes’ position in the literary tradition – is he a postmodernist writer? Is there any category that would fit his richly experimental style? And should he be assigned such a pigeonhole at all? In the first part of my thesis I will analyse the context and critical reception of Julian Barnes’ later works Arthur & George (2005), Nothing to Be Frightened Of (2009), The Sense of an Ending (2011) and present common features and themes of these novels – most importantly, the theme of memory. This topic will be central for the next part of my thesis, which will discuss memory as a motif in literature and its ground in literary theory. In the last part I will then focus on the three works discussed in the first part and analyse Barnes’ usage of memory as a very significant theme in his body of work |
| References |
| Primary Sources Barnes, Julian. Arthur &George. London: Jonathan Cape, 2005 Barnes, Julian. Nothing to Be Frightened of, London: Vintage Books, 2009 Barnes, Julian. The Sense of an Ending. London: Jonathan Cape, 2011 Secondary Sources Bradford, Richard. The Novel Now: Contemporary British Fiction. Malden: Blackwell, 2007 Childs, Peter. Contemporary Novelists: British Fiction since 1970. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 Childs, Peter. Julian Barnes: Contemporary British Novelists. New York: Manchester University Press, 2011 Childs, Peter, and Groes Sebastian, eds. Julian Barnes (Contemporary Critical Perspectives). London: Continuum, 2011 Guignery, Vanessa. The Fiction of Julian Barnes: A Reader's Guide to Essential Criticism. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006 Nagy, Ladislav. In memoriam. Dějiny a paměť v současné britské próze. Praha: Academia, 2015 |