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Question (Part 8)
What are the three types of intertextuality according to Aimée?
Question (Part 8)
What are the three types of intertextuality according to Aimée?
- appropriation (adaptation),
- allusion (reference to),
- parody (humorous imitation).
24 - Magic realism
Magic realism -- when marvellous and impossible events occur in what otherwise purports to be a realistic narrative -- is an effect especially associated with contemporary Latin-American fiction (for example the work of the Columbian novelist, Gabriel García Márquez) but it is also encountered in novels from other continents, such as those of Günter Grass, Salman Rushdie and Milan Kundera. All these writers have lived through great historical convulsions and wrenching personal upheavals, which they feel cannot be adequately represented in a discourse of undisturbed realism.
25 - Staying on the surface
The earliest English novels -- Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Richerdson's Pamela -- used journals and letters to portray the inner thoughts of their characters with unprecedented realism; and the subsequent development of the genre, at least up to Joyce and Proust, can be seen as a progressively deeper and subtler exploration of consciousness. So when a novelist chooses to stay on the surface of human behaviour we register the absence of psychological depth with a surprised attentiveness, and perhaps uneasiness, even if we cannot immediately put our finger on the reason.
The earliest English novels -- Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Richerdson's Pamela -- used journals and letters to portray the inner thoughts of their characters with unprecedented realism; and the subsequent development of the genre, at least up to Joyce and Proust, can be seen as a progressively deeper and subtler exploration of consciousness. So when a novelist chooses to stay on the surface of human behaviour we register the absence of psychological depth with a surprised attentiveness, and perhaps uneasiness, even if we cannot immediately put our finger on the reason.
26 - Showing and telling
Fictional discourse constantly alternates between showing us what happened and telling us what happened. The purest form of showing is the quoted speech of characters, in which language exactly mirrors the event (because the event is linguistic). The purest form of telling is authorial summary, in which the conciseness and abstraction of the narrator's language effaces the particularity and individuality of the characters and their actions. [...] Summary has its uses: it can, for instance, accelerate the tempo of a narrative, hurrying us through events which would be uninteresting, or too interesting -- therefore distracting, if lingered over.
Fictional discourse constantly alternates between showing us what happened and telling us what happened. The purest form of showing is the quoted speech of characters, in which language exactly mirrors the event (because the event is linguistic). The purest form of telling is authorial summary, in which the conciseness and abstraction of the narrator's language effaces the particularity and individuality of the characters and their actions. [...] Summary has its uses: it can, for instance, accelerate the tempo of a narrative, hurrying us through events which would be uninteresting, or too interesting -- therefore distracting, if lingered over.
Question
Have you read any magic realism novels? Which ones?
Have you read any magic realism novels? Which ones?
great article ! lucie
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