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SOURCE: “Peter Ackroyd, Postmodern Play and Chatterton, ” in Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 38, No. 2, Summer, 1992, pp. 240-61. [ In the following essay, Finney provides an overview of ...
itself or to another text. I contend that Ackroyd’s Chatterton at once contests both its self-referentiality and representational claims towards reality through certain narrative techniques such as parody, mise en abyme and emplotment. Therefore, the novel subverts a generally accepted understanding of postmodern texts as only self-referential.
These same obsessions figure prominently in Ackroyd’s third and most emphatically postmodern novel, Chatterton, as they do in his two earlier ones, The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde (1983) and ...
book fills this gap very well with its impressive close reading of the novel and is illuminating for students and researchers of postmodern literature. Reference Aryan, A. (2022). The Postmodern Representation of Reality in Peter Ackroyd’s Chatterton. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Chatterton's motif of the dying father, this text uses its. postmodern weirdness to intensify and consolidate that very fa- miliar site of emotional involvement. The English Patient, on the other hand, creates an intimate relationship between the ideas of. postmodernism and the emotional experience created through.
Mar 19, 2023 · Arya Aryan's book The Postmodern Representation of Reality in Peter Ackroyd's Chatterton (Cambridge Scholars, 2022) explores the postmodernist representation of reality and argues that historiographic metafictional texts, such as Peter Ackroyd’s Chatterton (1987), are hetero-referential in their creation of a heterocosm, as opposed to representational and anti-representational views of art.
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Chatterton, which was published and shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1987, is an example of Peter Ackroyd’s postmodern fiction. In her book The Politics of Postmodernism, Linda Hutcheon claims that “Peter Ackroyd’s Chatterton offers a working example of a postmodern novel whose form and content de-naturalize representation in both ...
