Self-reflexive fiction : the red notebook in Paul Auster´s the New York trilogy

Postmodernism represents a fertile terrain for metafiction, which embodies the act of writing about writing and in which the boundary between fiction and reality is so narrow and elusive that it occasionally disconcerts the reader. There are two major assumptions underlying this work: first, that po...

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Autor principal: Siri, María Verónica
Otros Autores: Chiacchio, Cecilia
Formato: Tesis de grado acceptedVersion
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Universidad Tecnológica Nacional. Facultad Regional Concepción del Uruguay. 2016
Materias:
Posmodernismo
Critica literaria
Metaficción
Literatura inglesa
Novela
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12272/1313
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RIA - Repositorio Institucional Abierto (UTN) de Universidad Tecnológica Nacional
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topic Posmodernismo
Critica literaria
Metaficción
Literatura inglesa
Novela
spellingShingle Posmodernismo
Critica literaria
Metaficción
Literatura inglesa
Novela
Siri, María Verónica
Self-reflexive fiction : the red notebook in Paul Auster´s the New York trilogy
topic_facet Posmodernismo
Critica literaria
Metaficción
Literatura inglesa
Novela
description Postmodernism represents a fertile terrain for metafiction, which embodies the act of writing about writing and in which the boundary between fiction and reality is so narrow and elusive that it occasionally disconcerts the reader. There are two major assumptions underlying this work: first, that postmodernism challenges the status of reality and fiction by postulating their blurring boundaries; and second, the belief that texts produce meaning and, thus, the novel conveys an explanation of the world and the way we understand it. Within that frame, we work on the hypothesis that the red notebook in Paul Auster‟s The New York Trilogy (1987) is not just an ordinary object in the plotline; it represents literature and the act of writing, at the same time that it constitutes a meaningful space that gathers reader and writer and which serves them to interpret the world. In order to demonstrate these ideas, first, we demarcate the theoretical framework around the concepts postmodernism, metafiction, self-reflexivity, mimesis and the status of fiction and reality. Then, we make a critical analysis of the red notebook in Auster‟s The New York Trilogy and we also examine his own The Red Notebook (1995) in order to find connections between both texts to the light of the theoretical concepts. On a broader frame, we take into consideration Auster‟s literary and critical position within American postmodern literature and American literary tradition.
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title Self-reflexive fiction : the red notebook in Paul Auster´s the New York trilogy
title_short Self-reflexive fiction : the red notebook in Paul Auster´s the New York trilogy
title_full Self-reflexive fiction : the red notebook in Paul Auster´s the New York trilogy
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