The Dialog on Postmodernism Intertextuality, Parody, the Talk of History and the Issue of Reference
P. Suresh1, S. Suman Rajest2
1P. Suresh, Associate Professor, Department of English, Vels Institute of Science, Technology & Advanced Studies Vels University, Chennai (Tamil Nadu), India.
2S. Suman Rajest, Ph.D Scholar, Department of English, Vels Institute of Science, Technology & Advanced Studies Vels University, Chennai (Tamil Nadu), India.
Manuscript received on 12 February 2019 | Revised Manuscript received on 08 April 2019 | Manuscript Published on 28 April 2019 | PP: 244-251 | Volume-7 Issue-5C February 2019 | Retrieval Number: E10570275C19/19©BEIESP
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Abstract: In light of assaults on innovator formalist closure, that postmodernist fiction opens itself up to history, to what Edward Said (1983) calls the “world”. It can never again do as such in any remotely blameless way. Thus those un-honest confusing historiographic metafictions arrange themselves inside recorded talk while declining to surrender their self-governance as fiction. Furthermore, it is a genuinely amusing satire that frequently empowers historiographic metafictions’ conflicting doubleness: the intertexts of history and fiction go up against parallel status in the parodic improving the literary piece of both the “world” and writing and the printed consolidation of these intertextual pasts as a basic constitutive component of postmodernist fiction works as a formal stamping of accuracy. It is both abstract and “common” and the intertextual satire of historiographic metafiction orders, as it were. The perspectives of certain contemporary historiographers: it offers a feeling of the nearness of the past and however a history that can be known just from its messages, its follows be they scholarly or chronicled.
Keywords: Doubleness, History and Fiction, Contemporary Historiographers, Self-Contradictions, Worldly, Postmodernist Fiction.
Scope of the Article: Social Sciences