Doctoral candidate at RIMT University, India
Master of Philosophy in English. UGC-NET.
Assistant Professor
S.G.A.D. Govt. College, Tarn Taran
Address: H.no. 15/367
Street Udho Ram,
Noordi Road,
Tarn Taran, Punjab, India.
Pin code: 143401
Master of Philosophy in English. UGC-NET.
Assistant Professor
S.G.A.D. Govt. College, Tarn Taran
Address: H.no. 15/367
Street Udho Ram,
Noordi Road,
Tarn Taran, Punjab, India.
Pin code: 143401
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Edgar Sawtelle (2008) by American novelist David Wroblewski. The novel is a rewriting of Shakespeare’s epic play Hamlet. Novelist uses the technique of Anthropomorphization (the literary device of giving human qualities, traits to non-human animals) to show a contrast between human and animal behaviour. Throughout the human history, in religious, philosophical and scientific writings, humans are considered morally superior to animals. However, Human characters in the novel display negative emotions like lust, hatred and revenge, and commit evil deeds while animals (dogs) display positive emotions like love, morality and empathy and make right choices. Iposit that humans extinct while dogs survive in the end because dogs display a strength of character, altruism and virtue while human characters are myopic in their vision and they butcher each other for monetary benefits or forabhorrence. This is an interdisciplinary paper. The novel is analyzed in the light of the views expressed by Rene Descartes on non-human animals, the doctrine of Bete -Machine. Then evidence from ethology and affective
neuroscience is presented to assert that novelist’s use of
anthropomorphization is not merely a literary device but non-human animals in reality do express emotions of empathy, love and morality.
Keywords: Humans, Non-human animals, Morality, Superior, Immoral,
Revenge, Empathy
incorporates the different techniques and strategies such as intertextuality, parody, pastiche, metafiction and magic realism. Hence text becomes a battlefield of differing and contending voices and viewpoints. Historiographic Metafiction is one such sub type of postmodern novel. The term was given by Linda Hutcheon in 1989 in her book The Politics of Postmodernism. This genre forgrounds a postmodern distrust of metanarratives. It sees official history and discourse as constructed and contingent, pointing to the possibility of establishing counter historical framework, hence expressing the plurality of meaning. As historiography voices only the dominant events and turning them into historical facts while leaving out others, these other
marginalized groups are denied an official voice. The present paper analyzes Jeanette Winterson’s novel Sexing the Cherry as a postmodern historiographic metafiction as it subverts the dominant historic voice by voicing the other. Employing the elements of intertextuality, fantasy, hyperbole and non-linearity, the narrative is set in 17th century London, the text challenges the traditional historical accounts and patriarchal heterosexist discourse.
Keywords : narrative, history, subversion, voice, marginal, metanarrative, metafiction.
Edgar Sawtelle (2008) by American novelist David Wroblewski. The novel is a rewriting of Shakespeare’s epic play Hamlet. Novelist uses the technique of Anthropomorphization (the literary device of giving human qualities, traits to non-human animals) to show a contrast between human and animal behaviour. Throughout the human history, in religious, philosophical and scientific writings, humans are considered morally superior to animals. However, Human characters in the novel display negative emotions like lust, hatred and revenge, and commit evil deeds while animals (dogs) display positive emotions like love, morality and empathy and make right choices. Iposit that humans extinct while dogs survive in the end because dogs display a strength of character, altruism and virtue while human characters are myopic in their vision and they butcher each other for monetary benefits or forabhorrence. This is an interdisciplinary paper. The novel is analyzed in the light of the views expressed by Rene Descartes on non-human animals, the doctrine of Bete -Machine. Then evidence from ethology and affective
neuroscience is presented to assert that novelist’s use of
anthropomorphization is not merely a literary device but non-human animals in reality do express emotions of empathy, love and morality.
Keywords: Humans, Non-human animals, Morality, Superior, Immoral,
Revenge, Empathy
incorporates the different techniques and strategies such as intertextuality, parody, pastiche, metafiction and magic realism. Hence text becomes a battlefield of differing and contending voices and viewpoints. Historiographic Metafiction is one such sub type of postmodern novel. The term was given by Linda Hutcheon in 1989 in her book The Politics of Postmodernism. This genre forgrounds a postmodern distrust of metanarratives. It sees official history and discourse as constructed and contingent, pointing to the possibility of establishing counter historical framework, hence expressing the plurality of meaning. As historiography voices only the dominant events and turning them into historical facts while leaving out others, these other
marginalized groups are denied an official voice. The present paper analyzes Jeanette Winterson’s novel Sexing the Cherry as a postmodern historiographic metafiction as it subverts the dominant historic voice by voicing the other. Employing the elements of intertextuality, fantasy, hyperbole and non-linearity, the narrative is set in 17th century London, the text challenges the traditional historical accounts and patriarchal heterosexist discourse.
Keywords : narrative, history, subversion, voice, marginal, metanarrative, metafiction.