Description

• Title:
  Parodied Locations: A Play on Genre Conventions and Place in Flann O’Brien’s The Poor Mouth and Alasdair Gray’s Poor Things
• Creator:
  Szot, Barbara
• Contributor:
  Univerzity Palackého, Filozofická fakulta, Katedra anglistiky a amerikanistiky
• Description:
  Flann O’Brien in The Poor Mouth and Alasdair Gray in Poor Things use parody (of Gaeltacht memoirs and Gothic fiction respectively) to join in a discussion on literary representations of their homelands (Ireland and Scotland). This paper discusses the subversive play on the reader’s expectations regarding literary representation of places driven by previous knowledge of the parodied genre’s conventions which the two authors use to pinpoint the inadequacy of the hitherto existing literary tradition.;
  This article was written within the project IGA_FF_2016_058, financed from the budget provided in 2016 by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic to Palacký University Olomouc to support specific research activities at the university.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Date:
  2022.12.29;
  2017
• Type:
  Article
• Language:
  English
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe
• Relation:
  Zagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich;2;
  60
• Subject:
  representation of place;
  parody;
  intertextuality
• Identifier:
  0084-4446;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/44960 ;
  2451-0335
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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• Type:
  image