De-facement of the Subject in the Mirror of Fiction: A de-Manian Reading of E.L. Doctorow’s World’s Fair

سال انتشار: 1395
محل انتشار: چهارمین کنفرانس بین المللی پژوهشهای کاربردی در مطالعات زبان
کد COI اختصاصی: ELSCONF04_053
زبان مقاله: انگلیسی
تعداد مشاهده: 417

نویسندگان

MA in English Literature, University of Tehran

چکیده

Certain parallels between E.L. Doctorow’s early years of adolescence and his novel World’s Fair (1985) have given rise to a general reception of the novel as an instance of autobiography. The simultaneous merging of illusionand memoir, however, undermines all attempts at categorizing World’s Fair generically insofar as any suchcategorization fails to capture the essence of the novel in the entirety of its dimensions. The reflection of reality throughthe fictional medium of the novel, through memory and language, challenges the assumption that autobiography is possible whatsoever. Arguing that it is problematic/ simplistic to recognize any text as either history or fiction, Paul deMan proposes a revolving-door model in which any autobiographical text is shown to feature fictionality while anyfictional text might just as well exhibit traces of autobiographicality. In this line, the present undertaking targets the factual and fictional dimensions of World’s Fair by exploring the ways that the text lends itself to a deconstructive reading. The starting point is a specular subject, inside and outside the text, who shows signs of retrospection and prescience. Further explorations of the protagonist in terms of artistic maturation, social development and communal consciousness unveil how aporic mechanisms disrupt the binary dynamics of traditional discourses

کلیدواژه ها

autobiography, fiction, specular subject, deconstruction

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