Italo Calvino’s if on a winter’s night a traveller and Flann O’Brien’s the third policeman as vital models of the empirical world

• 主要作者: Yong, Glennice Jing-Yi
• 其他作者: Cornelius Anthony Murphy
• 格式: Final Year Project
• 語言: English
• 出版: 2015
• 主題: DRNTU::Humanities::Language::English
• 在線閱讀: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/65629
• 機構: Nanyang Technological University

Contending with realist fiction’s claims to verisimilitude, this essay posits that postmodern metafictions such as Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller (Iwn) and Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman render a connection between life and art that goes beyond mere surface similarity. While reali...