The Logic of the Paradox - Self-Inventing and Popular Culture in Nicola Barker''s Clear

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Logic of the Paradox - Self-Inventing and Popular Culture in Nicola Barker''s Clear

Original language description

Nicola Barker''s Clear (2004) was inspired by David Blaine''s endurance stunt "Above the Below", during which the illusionist fasted for forty-four days confined in a transparent box suspended above the Thames, starting on September 5, 2003. This articlefocuses on how the theme of self-fashioning through the texts of popular visual culture is explored in the novel and how Barker renders some of the central paradoxical principles that generate these texts'' meanings. It also argues that rather than a documentary fiction Clear represents a novel of ideas because it dramatises some of the recent theories of postmodern popular culture and identity formation.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AJ - Literature, mass media, audio-visual activities

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2011

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Ostrava Journal of English Philology

ISSN

1803-8174

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Volume of the periodical

3

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

117-131

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