Ivan Stacy
I am currently associate professor in the School of Foreign Languages and Literature at Beijing Normal University, China. My main research interests are complicity and the carnivalesque, primarily focusing on post-war fiction. I have published articles on Kazuo Ishiguro, W. G. Sebald, China Miéville, and on the American TV series The Wire. I am currently working on a book project titled Literature and Complicity and which is under contract with Lexington Books.
Supervisors: Anne Whitehead and John Beck
Address: Room 204, East 5 Building, Zijingang Campus, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China
Supervisors: Anne Whitehead and John Beck
Address: Room 204, East 5 Building, Zijingang Campus, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China
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On this basis, the article discusses the carnivalesque in Vertigo, The Emigrants and The Rings of Saturn from two perspectives. Firstly, it examines the presence of carnivalesque figures and locations, arguing that these are evidence of carnival’s exhaustion, and of the way that modernity has closed down the possibility of licensed transgression. Secondly, it argues that the narrators themselves are duplicitous, ‘masked’ figures whose inconsistencies and ethical transgressions are central to Sebald’s project of unbinding modern subjectivity.
On this basis, the article discusses the carnivalesque in Vertigo, The Emigrants and The Rings of Saturn from two perspectives. Firstly, it examines the presence of carnivalesque figures and locations, arguing that these are evidence of carnival’s exhaustion, and of the way that modernity has closed down the possibility of licensed transgression. Secondly, it argues that the narrators themselves are duplicitous, ‘masked’ figures whose inconsistencies and ethical transgressions are central to Sebald’s project of unbinding modern subjectivity.