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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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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

Druh

J_x - Nezařazeno - Článek v odborném periodiku (Jimp, Jsc a Jost)

CEP obor

AJ - Písemnictví, mas–media, audiovize

OECD FORD obor

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Projekt

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Návaznosti

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Rok uplatnění

2011

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Ars Aeterna

ISSN

1337-9291

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

3

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

SK - Slovenská republika

Počet stran výsledku

16

Strana od-do

19-34

Kód UT WoS článku

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