Szarvas Réka: Metafiction in The New York trilogy. In: Papers in English and American studies : Tomus XXV. - Distinguished Szeged student papers 2020, (25). pp. 185-197. (2020)
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Abstract
Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy shows the characteristics of a hard-boiled detective fiction but does it in a postmodern way. This paper intends to prove that from the postmodern characteristics of the novel the most prominent are the metafictional elements. The first part of the thesis presents the theoretical background of the analysis. The detective fiction and its traces in the trilogy will be introduced: the detective characters, supposed crimes and investigation, and how the novels fail being detective fictions altogether. The paper provides an insight into other analyses of The New York Trilogy as a postmodern detective fiction, and then outlines the characteristics of metafiction as a genre to provide a basis for the analysis in the next half of the thesis. The second part offers examples from the trilogy for elements of metafictional novels. Intertextual references, self-conscious devices such as frame-breaking, writing-writers as a topic and the characters self-awareness will be outlined. The author's entrance to the text, a special kind of frame-breaking will also be demonstrated. In conclusion the thesis through theoretical background and examples from the novel demonstrates how The New York Trilogy is a metafictional novel.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
|---|---|
| Journal or Publication Title: | Papers in English and American studies : Tomus XXV. - Distinguished Szeged student papers 2020 |
| Date: | 2020 |
| Volume: | 25 |
| ISSN: | 0230-2780 |
| ISBN: | 978-963-315-428-1 |
| Page Range: | pp. 185-197 |
| Series Name: | Acta Universitatis Szegediensis de Attila József nominatae : papers in english and american studies |
| Language: | English |
| Contributors: | Contribution Name UNSPECIFIED Auster Paul |
| Publisher: | JATEPress |
| Place of Publication: | Szeged |
| Related URLs: | https://acta.bibl.u-szeged.hu/86283/ |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Amerikai irodalom története - 20. sz., Műelemzés - angol |
| Additional Information: | Bibliogr.: 197. p. ; összefoglalás angol nyelven |
| Subjects: | 06. Humanities 06. Humanities > 06.02. Languages and Literature |
| Date Deposited: | 2025. Mar. 21. 15:05 |
| Last Modified: | 2025. Mar. 21. 15:05 |
| URI: | http://acta.bibl.u-szeged.hu/id/eprint/86802 |
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