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Paul Auster's (Post)modern Chronotopes:

Space, Time, Genre

Julia Seltnerajch author Marek Wilczynski editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Peter Lang AG

Published:30th Sep '24

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Paul Auster's (Post)modern Chronotopes: cover

The study focuses on spatio-temporal relations and their dependence on literary genres in Paul Auster’s fiction. The author examines how selected novels reflect and redefine both the representation of space and formulaic patterns of genres they can be categorised as. Semiotic spaces created by Auster share some common features, such as dislocation, diversity or incongruity. Read as the postmodern ones, they are remodellings of novelistic chronotopes defined by, for instance, the tradition of detective fiction or the road novel. As such, Auster’s dialogue with tradition in terms of genre-specified features and models of space has led to the emergence of generic variants exhibiting tenets slightly or extensively altered in comparison to their predecessors.

ISBN: 9783631906347

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 417g

266 pages

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