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Post - 9/11 Novel : An Analysis of four novels dealing with the events of September 11th, 2001, birth of a new literary phenomenon
Zbořil, Jonáš ; Ženíšek, Jakub (advisor) ; Bojarová, Marie (referee)
This BA thesis is concerned with the analysis of four literary works by Johnatan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close), Don DeLillo (Falling Man), Ken Kalfus (A Disorder Peculiar To The Country) and John Updike (Terrorist). As the novels will have been thoroughly introduced, a set of common motifs will be analysed. The need for self-reflection of the American (western) society, the urge for understanding the enemy and the reasons for hatred. The psychological, social, political and economical changes contemporary America had and has to face. The last part of the thesis tries to find out whether there is a new phenomenon (Post-9/11 Novel) forming in the contemporary Anglo-American literature, what are its aspects, its history and its future, which works are the most significant ones.
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Art of Self-Deception: Unreliable Narration and Its Motivation in Kazuo Ishiguro's An Artist of the Floating World and The Remains of the Day
Zbořil, Jonáš ; Chalupský, Petr (advisor) ; Topolovská, Tereza (referee)
The purpose of this thesis is to analyse unreliable narration and its motivation in the two novels by Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World (1986) and The Remains of the Day (1989) using the taxonomy of Zuzana Fonioková and James Phelan and Mary Patricia Martin. In its theoretical part, this thesis explores the concept of unreliability in contemporary narratology, furthermore, it studies self-deception and memory, two phenomena essential for understanding the motivations for unreliable narration. The practical part consists of an analysis of the textual signals of unreliability, which proves the complexity of Ishiguro's narrative strategies. The thesis concludes that the climax of both the novels is created through the spelling out of the narrators' self-deception, which is the cause of their unreliability in the first place. KEYWORDS Kazuo Ishiguro, unreliable narration, self-deception, memory, An Artist of the Floating World, The Remains of the Day
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Post - 9/11 Novel : An Analysis of four novels dealing with the events of September 11th, 2001, birth of a new literary phenomenon
Zbořil, Jonáš ; Ženíšek, Jakub (advisor) ; Bojarová, Marie (referee)
This BA thesis is concerned with the analysis of four literary works by Johnatan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close), Don DeLillo (Falling Man), Ken Kalfus (A Disorder Peculiar To The Country) and John Updike (Terrorist). As the novels will have been thoroughly introduced, a set of common motifs will be analysed. The need for self-reflection of the American (western) society, the urge for understanding the enemy and the reasons for hatred. The psychological, social, political and economical changes contemporary America had and has to face. The last part of the thesis tries to find out whether there is a new phenomenon (Post-9/11 Novel) forming in the contemporary Anglo-American literature, what are its aspects, its history and its future, which works are the most significant ones.
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