THE ANATOMY OF LOSS AND THE MAGIC OF FICTION: GRAHAM SWIFT’S HERE WE ARE

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Výsledek na webu

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/BSE2023-1-5" target="_blank" >10.5817/BSE2023-1-5</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

THE ANATOMY OF LOSS AND THE MAGIC OF FICTION: GRAHAM SWIFT’S HERE WE ARE

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Here We Are (2020), Graham Swift&apos;s latest novel to date, tells the story of a love triangle between three young variety artists over a few weeks in the summer of 1959. As it is narrated from the present-day perspective fifty years later, when the last surviving member of the trio looks back on her life, remembering in particular the events of the fateful summer which culminated in the tragic loss of her ex-fiancé, the novel at first sight resembles Swift&apos;s immediately preceding piece, Mothering Sunday (2016), which employs a similar narrative strategy and revolves around a similar central theme. This paper, however, argues that besides these similarities, Here We Are differs from Mothering Sunday in a number of key regards, which is why it can be read as its precursor&apos;s loose duology which complements rather than replicates it. This paper demonstrates that the novel not only combines its author&apos;s idiosyncrasies with the narrative forms and perspectives to which he has turned to recently, but also allows him, through metacommentary, to indirectly express his ideas concerning the social, ethical and aesthetic aspects of fiction writing.

Název v anglickém jazyce

THE ANATOMY OF LOSS AND THE MAGIC OF FICTION: GRAHAM SWIFT’S HERE WE ARE

Popis výsledku anglicky

Here We Are (2020), Graham Swift&apos;s latest novel to date, tells the story of a love triangle between three young variety artists over a few weeks in the summer of 1959. As it is narrated from the present-day perspective fifty years later, when the last surviving member of the trio looks back on her life, remembering in particular the events of the fateful summer which culminated in the tragic loss of her ex-fiancé, the novel at first sight resembles Swift&apos;s immediately preceding piece, Mothering Sunday (2016), which employs a similar narrative strategy and revolves around a similar central theme. This paper, however, argues that besides these similarities, Here We Are differs from Mothering Sunday in a number of key regards, which is why it can be read as its precursor&apos;s loose duology which complements rather than replicates it. This paper demonstrates that the novel not only combines its author&apos;s idiosyncrasies with the narrative forms and perspectives to which he has turned to recently, but also allows him, through metacommentary, to indirectly express his ideas concerning the social, ethical and aesthetic aspects of fiction writing.

Druh

J_SC - Článek v periodiku v databázi SCOPUS

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60205 - Literary theory

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2023

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Brno Studies in English

ISSN

0524-6881

e-ISSN

1805-0867

Svazek periodika

49

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

CZ - Česká republika

Počet stran výsledku

14

Strana od-do

99-112

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85182788460