Xiaohong, He (2023) The Narrative Strategies in Albert Camus' The Plague: A Metafictional Reading. European Journal of English Language and Literature Studies, 11 (2). pp. 13-23. ISSN 2055-0138(Print), 2055-0146(Online)
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Abstract
The Plague by Albert Camus appears to be a biographical and traditional narrative, but in fact Camus employs various postmodern meta-fictional narrative strategies in his novel, such as overtly indicating the author's presence in the work, occasionally the author intrudes directly to make comments, revealing its artificial fiction; changing narrative perspectives; parodying traditional diaries and heroic legends; intertextuality, collage, etc., which, to a certain extent, demonstrate the literary characteristics of postmodernism: indeterminacy, anti-center, everything is nothingness, etc., and also subvert its narrative conventions, breaking our readers' expectations. This is to a certain extent the literary characteristics of postmodernism: anti-determinism, anti-center, everything is nothingness, etc. It also subverts its narrative rules and breaks our readers' reading expectations. Camus's use of meta-fictional narrative strategies reveals the postmodernism hidden in Camus, his view of the world of vanity, and the plight of contemporary human existence.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PE English |
| Depositing User: | Professor Mark T. Owen |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Mar 2023 14:26 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Mar 2023 14:26 |
| URI: | https://tudr.org/id/eprint/1602 |
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