Abstract
The peculiarities of intertextual dialogue in the postmodernist novel in Britain are investigated in the article. Literary-theoretical matters of intertextuality were clarified and commented on its reflection as a form of dialogue in literature. The intertextual dialogue’s functions were analyzed on the postmodernist novel as “The house of Doctor Dee”, “The Lambs of London”, “The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein” by Peter Ackroyd, the British writer. The reminiscences, allusions, quotations, and aphorisms used in the novels in a fact form the skeleton of the works and is the means to show heroes’ characteristic features. P. Ackroyd presenting intertextual dialogue with the parallel commentary in the development of events “settles” them in certain cultural paradigms. So the writer makes open the structure of the postmodernist novel and opens the way for many interpretations.
Highlights
Mikhail Bakhtin’s dialogue conception as a universal general cultural category, Yuri Lotman’s view of text as a culture, Roland Barthes’ thoughts of quotation mentality or Julia Kristeva’s presentation of text as quotation mosaic became the burning problems of the modern literary criticism of latest years observing in all spheres of humanitarian science
The reminiscences, allusions, quotations, and aphorisms used in the novels in a fact form the skeleton of the works and is the means to show heroes’ characteristic features
The main aim of the article is to determine intertextual dialogue with the texts written in different literary systems of British novel and to find out its appearance in Peter Ackroyd’s postmodernist novels:
Summary
Mikhail Bakhtin’s dialogue conception as a universal general cultural category, Yuri Lotman’s view of text as a culture, Roland Barthes’ thoughts of quotation mentality or Julia Kristeva’s presentation of text as quotation mosaic became the burning problems of the modern literary criticism of latest years observing in all spheres of humanitarian science. From author’s point of view, intertextual dialogue helps to contact the reader, to create his own text, to form systematic relationships among the other writers’ works in his personal literary activity. That’s why intertextual dialogue means mutual relation of the texts within the same literary work under the principle of “parts create the whole”. Intertextual dialogue can be shown in different forms They often fulfill certain functions as reminiscence, allusion, quotation, aphorisms: to open inter peculiarities of the hero of the work; to determine public and social status; to describe historical events; to emphasize figuratively utters in characters’ speech; to find out moral features of hero and so on. The main aim of the article is to determine intertextual dialogue with the texts written in different literary systems of British novel and to find out its appearance in Peter Ackroyd’s postmodernist novels:. - To find out the specific character of the postmodernist novel in Peter Ackroyd’s literary activity
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