What succeeds postmodern fiction? Milan Kundera’s ignorance, John Banville’s the sea, and Julian Barnes’ the sense of an ending

The question of what comes after postmodern fiction is a key consideration of contemporary fiction, particularly with respect to novels centred on new ways of making art, while still exhibiting the use of postmodern discursive techniques to different effects. With this paradigmatic shift, the fictio...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cheong, Adel Xian Hui
Other Authors: Cornelius Anthony Murphy
Format: Theses and Dissertations
Language:English
Published: 2016
Subjects:
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/66039
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English
id sg-ntu-dr.10356-66039
record_format dspace
spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-660392019-12-10T14:56:44Z What succeeds postmodern fiction? Milan Kundera’s ignorance, John Banville’s the sea, and Julian Barnes’ the sense of an ending Cheong, Adel Xian Hui Cornelius Anthony Murphy School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Humanities The question of what comes after postmodern fiction is a key consideration of contemporary fiction, particularly with respect to novels centred on new ways of making art, while still exhibiting the use of postmodern discursive techniques to different effects. With this paradigmatic shift, the fiction of our time must be understood in relation to both the history and future of the novel. Focusing on the ‘traditional’ and ‘experimental’ conventions of fiction, I will illustrate the centrality of Milan Kundera’s Ignorance, John Banville’s The Sea, and Julian Barnes’ The Sense of an Ending, as works of contemporary fiction. This thesis begins with a consideration of the ways in which these novels continue to engage with age-old questions about the relationship of reality and fiction from a counter-realist tradition, while suggesting different possibilities for the novel. Master of Arts (HSS) 2016-03-04T02:43:33Z 2016-03-04T02:43:33Z 2016 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10356/66039 en 129 p. application/pdf
institution Nanyang Technological University
building NTU Library
country Singapore
collection DR-NTU
language English
topic DRNTU::Humanities
spellingShingle DRNTU::Humanities
Cheong, Adel Xian Hui
What succeeds postmodern fiction? Milan Kundera’s ignorance, John Banville’s the sea, and Julian Barnes’ the sense of an ending
description The question of what comes after postmodern fiction is a key consideration of contemporary fiction, particularly with respect to novels centred on new ways of making art, while still exhibiting the use of postmodern discursive techniques to different effects. With this paradigmatic shift, the fiction of our time must be understood in relation to both the history and future of the novel. Focusing on the ‘traditional’ and ‘experimental’ conventions of fiction, I will illustrate the centrality of Milan Kundera’s Ignorance, John Banville’s The Sea, and Julian Barnes’ The Sense of an Ending, as works of contemporary fiction. This thesis begins with a consideration of the ways in which these novels continue to engage with age-old questions about the relationship of reality and fiction from a counter-realist tradition, while suggesting different possibilities for the novel.
author2 Cornelius Anthony Murphy
author_facet Cornelius Anthony Murphy
Cheong, Adel Xian Hui
format Theses and Dissertations
author Cheong, Adel Xian Hui
author_sort Cheong, Adel Xian Hui
title What succeeds postmodern fiction? Milan Kundera’s ignorance, John Banville’s the sea, and Julian Barnes’ the sense of an ending
title_short What succeeds postmodern fiction? Milan Kundera’s ignorance, John Banville’s the sea, and Julian Barnes’ the sense of an ending
title_full What succeeds postmodern fiction? Milan Kundera’s ignorance, John Banville’s the sea, and Julian Barnes’ the sense of an ending
title_fullStr What succeeds postmodern fiction? Milan Kundera’s ignorance, John Banville’s the sea, and Julian Barnes’ the sense of an ending
title_full_unstemmed What succeeds postmodern fiction? Milan Kundera’s ignorance, John Banville’s the sea, and Julian Barnes’ the sense of an ending
title_sort what succeeds postmodern fiction? milan kundera’s ignorance, john banville’s the sea, and julian barnes’ the sense of an ending
publishDate 2016
url http://hdl.handle.net/10356/66039
_version_ 1681040295367540736