parody as a salient device in postmodern literature is extensively applied by tom stoppard in his plays. having different layers of parody, stoppard’s “rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead”, “the real inspector hound”, and “dogg’s hamlet, cahoot’s macbeth” exhibit his parodic application of other writers’ plots. the analytical-qualitative scrutiny of the plot lines of these plays not only corr...

Angela Carter’s subversive narrative techniques help her establish an authentic atmosphere in which she is able to demythologise and dephilosophise traditional codes. Among these techniques, the grotesque considered be most groundbreaking one through Carter rejects classical body concept. By grotesque, represent sense of parodic ironic depiction female whose perverse qualities demolish “an idea...

This paper aims to analyse both the refined devices of literary contamination and textual techniques that permeate Teacher Orators by Lucian Samosata, a pamphlet which attacks lack moderation certain fashionable members Second Sophistic. Besides evaluating Lucian’s criticism in an impartial way, this offers analysis relationship among dialogue itself other genres, such as theatre contemporary S...

What we tend to call postmodernism in literature today is usually characterized by intense self-reflexivity and overtly parodic intertextuality. In fiction this means that it is usually metafiction that is equated with the postmodern. Given the scarcity of precise definitions of this problematic period designation, such an equation is often accepted without question. What I would like to argue ...

0-In contemporary media scholarship, the concept of intertextuality is used to descrihe hoth an interpretive practice of audiences and a stylistic device consciously employed by producers of media. This study examines how the frequent, scholarly conflation of these two conceptions has weakened the theoretical usefolness of hoth perspectives. Turning to the view of intertextuality as s!Jlistic d...

The 1960s was a particularly productive decade for Latin American literature. In those years, Latin American writers produced an astounding number of excellent novels that are marked by their incredible diversity in style and/or content. Despite their variety, however, there are some common characteristics such as the recurrent theme of metafictional concerns, the presence of intertextuality, t...