Pisarska Mediating the World in the Novels of Iain Banks

The Paradigms of Fiction
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-3-653-99924-2
Verlag: Peter Lang
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 1, 0 Seiten

Reihe: Mediated Fictions

This book offers a detailed analysis of all mainstream novels of Iain Banks. It explores the question of mediation, the process of a semiotic (re)construction of the world on the part of Banks’s characters, with reference to the four directions of fictional worldmodelling, i.e. the four types of relationship between the individual and the world established by the author’s first novel, The Wasp Factory. In order to give justice to the extremely eclectic novelistic production of Iain Banks, the analysis of fifteen of his novels contained in the present study employs diverse interpretative «tools», fusing elements of various methodologies: structural-semiotic analysis supplemented by a mythographic approach along with psychological and gender specific theories.Mediating the World in the Novels of Iain Banks: The Paradigms of Fiction thus develops a critical paradigm capable of uniting the extremely versatile mainstream production of this Scottish writer.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pisarska, Katarzyna

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents: Iain Banks – Mainstream Fiction – Mediation – The First Comprehensive Study of the 15 Mainstream Novels of Iain Banks – The Concept of Mediation – The Relationship between Character and Reality – The Wasp Factory as the Blueprint of Four Paradigms of Fictional Worlds.

Über Autor(innen)

Katarzyna Pisarska is Assistant Professor of English Literature at Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin (Poland). She is the author of publications on contemporary British and American fiction, Iain Banks’s novels, and utopia in literature and film.