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- Title
NARRATION-PARODY-INTERTEXTUALITY: REWRITING THE PAST IN CHARLES PALLISER'S THE QUINCUNX.
- Authors
MARTÍNEZ ALFARO, MARÍA JESÚS
- Abstract
The aim of this paper is to analyse Charles Palliser's first novel--The Quincunx (1989)-- in the light of the central role played by intertextuality in postmodernist literature in general and in contemporary British metafiction, in particular. The Quincunx has all the ingredients of the traditional realist novel. However, despite all the echoes and reverberations from a wide range of nineteenth-century works with which the reader is free to trace relations, The Quincunx does not constitute an innocent imitation but, rather, a parodie rewriting of its Victorian (mainly Dickensian) intertexts. One particular aspect of the novel--the use and patterning of narrative voices--has been analysed in detail as a means to illustrating die way in which parody can be turned into a wonderful vehicle to express the concerns of the present through the literature of the past.
- Subjects
INTERTEXTUALITY; QUINCUNX, The (Book); PALLISER, Charles
- Publication
Miscelánea: A Journal of English & American Studies, 2017, Vol 55, p193
- ISSN
1137-6368
- Publication type
Article