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Erzahltechnik
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- ISBN 9783039115280
- Weight: 360g
- Dimensions: 150 x 220mm
- Publication Date: 03 Jul 2008
- Publisher: Verlag Peter Lang
- Publication City/Country: CH
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book aims to revise the traditional interpretation of William Golding’s fiction. The author investigates Golding’s complicated metaphors which fluctuate so widely as to make consistent readings almost impossible. The study reveals that these fluctuating metaphors are created around a void, which is depicted not only as a gap but also as an impenetrable dark spot, or a counter-gaze. The characters in Golding’s fiction endeavour to symbolise the void, but it ultimately resists symbolisation.
Mainly from the perspective of semiotics, psychoanalysis, and philosophy, the book looks at the way in which the elements excluded from the symbolic system react against it and leave this void. The author then focuses on the void’s significance in the creation of unique metaphors.
Mainly from the perspective of semiotics, psychoanalysis, and philosophy, the book looks at the way in which the elements excluded from the symbolic system react against it and leave this void. The author then focuses on the void’s significance in the creation of unique metaphors.
The Author: Yasunori Sugimura is Professor at the Centre for Language Studies, Otaru University of Commerce, Japan, where he teaches English literature and literary theory. He has published articles on Iris Murdoch, Thomas Hardy, and William Golding in major journals and has been a visiting scholar at Darwin College, University of Cambridge.
