Going Back to One’s Roots: The Revival of Oral Storytelling Techniques in The English Contemporary Novel
My paper examines the interplay between the sophisticated postmodernist techniques of intertextuality, parody, metafiction and a return to orality or better said of pseudo-orality, a simulated-oral discourse or what the Russian Formalists called “skaz”, brought about by much postcolonial, ethnic or...
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doaj-4ed05a0e9e3743539e9123e46fbbe3642021-09-05T14:02:11ZengSciendoRomanian Journal of English Studies2286-04282012-12-019116618110.2478/v10319-012-0018-7Going Back to One’s Roots: The Revival of Oral Storytelling Techniques in The English Contemporary NovelBăniceru Ana Cristina0West University of TimişoaraMy paper examines the interplay between the sophisticated postmodernist techniques of intertextuality, parody, metafiction and a return to orality or better said of pseudo-orality, a simulated-oral discourse or what the Russian Formalists called “skaz”, brought about by much postcolonial, ethnic or feminist literature.https://doi.org/10.2478/v10319-012-0018-7grotesque discourseintertextualitymetafictionoral discoursepseudo-oralityskaz narrativesstorytelling |
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Going Back to One’s Roots: The Revival of Oral Storytelling Techniques in The English Contemporary Novel |
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Going Back to One’s Roots: The Revival of Oral Storytelling Techniques in The English Contemporary Novel |
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Going Back to One’s Roots: The Revival of Oral Storytelling Techniques in The English Contemporary Novel |
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Going Back to One’s Roots: The Revival of Oral Storytelling Techniques in The English Contemporary Novel |
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Going Back to One’s Roots: The Revival of Oral Storytelling Techniques in The English Contemporary Novel |
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going back to one’s roots: the revival of oral storytelling techniques in the english contemporary novel |
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Romanian Journal of English Studies |
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2286-0428 |
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2012-12-01 |
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My paper examines the interplay between the sophisticated postmodernist techniques of intertextuality, parody, metafiction and a return to orality or better said of pseudo-orality, a simulated-oral discourse or what the Russian Formalists called “skaz”, brought about by much postcolonial, ethnic or feminist literature. |
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grotesque discourse intertextuality metafiction oral discourse pseudo-orality skaz narratives storytelling |
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