『세 갈래 길이 만나는 곳』

• 영문명: John Barth's Where 3 Roads Meet: The Limits and Possibilities of Barthian Writing Strategies
• 발행기관: 한국영미어문학회
• 저자명: 김령희(Young Hee Kim)
• 간행물 정보: 『영미어문학』영미어문학 제115호, 79~98쪽, 전체 20쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2014.12.31

영문 초록

Calling into question the world of conventional realist literature, Barth has tried ever-new literary practices throughout his long writing career. This study aims to analyze John Barth's recent postmodern novel, Where 3 Roads Meet, focusing on how the seemingly different 3 pieces of novellas are integrated into a cohesive literary work. In the process, this article probes into Barthian postmodern narrative devices and tries to identify some limits and possibilities of his approach. His earlier short story "Click" showed the challenges posed by new media and effectively presented the ways everyday life approximates hypertextuality. In Where 3 Roads Meet, however, Barth goes back to his old cliché, employing oral storytelling and clinging to self-referentiality. Once experimental and innovative devices have lost their glitters, Barth's tenacious obsession with writer's plight seems overdone in the post-postmodern era. Even his competence as a wordsmith fails to produce humor and witty word plays pleasant enough to match his earlier works. Still, he never gives up his ongoing attempt to create an imaginative work of art, in which we can find a remaining potential of Barth as a virtuoso writer.

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Abstract

1. 서론

2. 자신을 비추는 거울

3. 유희와 실험의 장

4. 결론

인용문헌

키워드

존 바스 『세 갈래 길이 만나는 곳』 포스트모던 글쓰기 자아반영성 언어유희 구전 스토리텔링 John Barth Where 3 Roads Meet Postmodern writing self-reflective word play oral storytelling