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Metaphorical Death of the Character and the Text's Consuming Power: Comparison of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 and Paul Auster's The Book of Illusions - Couverture souple

Kahveci, Sirin

 
9783843388368: Metaphorical Death of the Character and the Text's Consuming Power: Comparison of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 and Paul Auster's The Book of Illusions
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3843388369 ISBN 13 : 9783843388368
Editeur : LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

The author is already dead and the narrator is not reliable anymore, in the contemporary fiction. Then, is the reader alone while re-creating the narrative during the process of reading. Is s/he supposed to remain the only humanistic subject during this process or do we have the character as another living subject within the text? This book explores Ray Bradburry's Fahrenheit 451 and Paul Auster's Book of Illusions in order to find an answer to these questions. The characters of both of the novels are in the quest of saving the books and/or movies from being burned down. And while trying to save the works from the consuming power of the flames, they themselves are captured by the consuming power of the text. And apparently it turns out that after the author and the narrator, the character betrays the reader and leaves him/her alone with the text as the only living subject.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The author is already dead and the narrator is not reliable anymore, in the contemporary fiction. Then, is the reader alone while re-creating the narrative during the process of reading. Is s/he supposed to remain the only humanistic subject during this process or do we have the character as another living subject within the text? This book explores Ray Bradburry's Fahrenheit 451 and Paul Auster's Book of Illusions in order to find an answer to these questions. The characters of both of the novels are in the quest of saving the books and/or movies from being burned down. And while trying to save the works from the consuming power of the flames, they themselves are captured by the consuming power of the text. And apparently it turns out that after the author and the narrator, the character betrays the reader and leaves him/her alone with the text as the only living subject.

Biographie de l'auteur

?irin Kahveci was born in 1986 in Bulgaria into an ethnically Turkish family. She moved to a small town in Turkey at the age of twelve together with her family. She studied in the Western Languages and Literatures department at Bogazici University and at Aarhus University. She holds a BA degree on English Language and Literature.

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Éditeur
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3843388369
ISBN 13 
9783843388368
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
76
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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