Frankenstein as an historical, urban Gothic psycho-thriller - Peter Ackroyd''s rendering of Mary Shelley''s classic in The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Frankenstein as an historical, urban Gothic psycho-thriller - Peter Ackroyd''s rendering of Mary Shelley''s classic in The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein

Original language description

Peter Ackroyd is one of the most acclaimed and prolific of contemporary British historical writers. His fiction exemplifies the genre of historical metafiction, which employs, apart from the eponymous thematisation of the writing process itself, many ofthe typical postmodernist narrative techniques such as intertextuality, generic hybridity, blurring of the borderline between fiction and historiography by mixing fictitious characters and events with real ones, and open or otherwise inconclusive endings. However, there are two more idiosyncrasies that can be traced in Ackroyd''s novels: the first is the author''s fascination with London and his subsequent representation of the British capital as both a setting and a theme; the second is his interest inthe obscure, enigmatic and occult, through which he expresses his persuasion that irrational forces should never be underestimated when we attempt to comprehend the world around us. Both of these tendencies can be found in The Casebook o

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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

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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

Ars Aeterna

ISSN

1337-9291

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Volume of the periodical

3

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

SK - SLOVAKIA

Number of pages

16

Pages from-to

19-34

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