Abstract
This study analyzes Waterland as a postmodern Bildungsroman by emphasizing its poststructuralist content and form. Graham Swift’s novel reflects the postmodern individual’s infinite quest to understand himself and the world. The quest reveals a post-structural essence that is marked with concepts such as différance and cyclicality where meaning is infinitely differed. Thus, the Existenz of the postmodern individual bears a fluid, in other words cyclical nature, which is also reflected in the novel’s new historicist approach to reality and history. This study aspires to display the temporality of Existenz which is shaped in relation to social structure and to the interpretation of life’s significance in a postmodernist paradigm.
Keywords
Bildungsroman Graham Swift Waterland Postmodernism Post-structuralism Existenz Existentialism Identity New Historicism.
References
- BERLATSKY, Eric. (2006)."'The Swamps of Myth… and Empirical Fishing Lines': Historiography, Narrativity, and the 'Here and Now' in Graham Swift’s Water- land". Journal of Narrative Theory. Vol. 36, Issue 2. (254-292).
- COOPER, Pamela. (1996). "Imperial Topographies: the Spaces of History in Water- land". Modern Fiction Studies. Vol. 42, Issue 2. (371-396).
- DECOSTE, Damon Marcel. (2002). "Question and Apocalypse: the Endlessness of 'Historia' in Graham Swift’s Waterland". Contemporary Literature. Vol. 43, Is- sue 2. (377-399).
- FOUCAULT, Michel. (2002). The Archaeology of Knowledge. London: Routledge Classics.
- GANNON, Christiane. (2014). "Walter Besant’s Democratic Bildungsroman". Narra- tive. Vol. 22, Issue 3. (372-394).
- IRISH, Robert K. (1998). "'Let Me Tell You': About Desire and Narrativity in Graham Swift’s Waterland". Modern Fiction Studies. Vol. 44, Issue 4. (917-934).
- JANIK, Del Ivan. (1989). "History and the 'Here and Now': the Novels of Graham Swift". Twentieth Century Literature. Vol. 35, Issue 1. (74-88).
- JONES, Leisha. (2011). "Contemporary Bildungsromans and the Prosumer Girl. Criti- cism.
- Vol. 53, Issue 3. (439-469).
- LANDOW, George P. (1990). "History, His Story, and Stories in Graham Swift’s Wa- terland". Studies in the Literary Imagination. Vol. 23, Issue 2. (197-211).
- MARAIS, Mike. (2014). "'I am Infinitely Strange to Myself': Existentialism, the Bild- ungsroman, and John Fowles’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman". Journal of Narrative Theory. Vol. 44, Issue 2. (244-266).
- MCKINNEY, Ronald H. (1997). "The Greening of Postmodernism: Graham Swift’s Waterland". New Literary History. Vol. 28, Issue 4. (821-832).
- RUBINSON, Gregory J. (2000). "History’s Genres: Julian Barnes’s A History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters". Modern Language Studies. Vol. 30, Issue 2. (159- 179).
- SOUTHGATE, Beverley. (2009). "Why Dryasdust?: Historians in Fiction". Historically Speaking. Vol. 10, Issue 2. (12-13).
- SWIFT, Graham. (2010). Waterland. London: Picador.
Abstract
Bu çalışmada Waterland, post-yapısalcı özellikler taşıyan içerik ve şekline dikkat çekilerek, postmodern bir Bildungsroman olarak incelenmiştir. Graham Swift’in romanı, postmodern bireyin kendisini ve dünyayı sonu gelmeyen bir arayışla anlamlandırmaya çalışmasını konu edinir. Bu arayış, mananın sürekli ertelendiği, farklılaşma, öteleme ve döngüsellik gibi kavramlarla öne çıkan post-yapısalcı özellikler sergilemektedir. Böylece, postmodern bireyin varoluşu 1değişken, bir başka ifadeyle döngüsel bir özelliktedir ki bu durum, romanın gerçekliğe ve tarihe bakışında sergilediği yeni tarihselci yaklaşımında da görülmektedir. Bu çalışmayla, postmodern bir paradigmada sosyal yapıya ve hayatın anlamına dair farklı yorumlamalara göre şekillenen varoluşun zamana bağlılığını göstermek amaçlanmaktadır
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References
- BERLATSKY, Eric. (2006)."'The Swamps of Myth… and Empirical Fishing Lines': Historiography, Narrativity, and the 'Here and Now' in Graham Swift’s Water- land". Journal of Narrative Theory. Vol. 36, Issue 2. (254-292).
- COOPER, Pamela. (1996). "Imperial Topographies: the Spaces of History in Water- land". Modern Fiction Studies. Vol. 42, Issue 2. (371-396).
- DECOSTE, Damon Marcel. (2002). "Question and Apocalypse: the Endlessness of 'Historia' in Graham Swift’s Waterland". Contemporary Literature. Vol. 43, Is- sue 2. (377-399).
- FOUCAULT, Michel. (2002). The Archaeology of Knowledge. London: Routledge Classics.
- GANNON, Christiane. (2014). "Walter Besant’s Democratic Bildungsroman". Narra- tive. Vol. 22, Issue 3. (372-394).
- IRISH, Robert K. (1998). "'Let Me Tell You': About Desire and Narrativity in Graham Swift’s Waterland". Modern Fiction Studies. Vol. 44, Issue 4. (917-934).
- JANIK, Del Ivan. (1989). "History and the 'Here and Now': the Novels of Graham Swift". Twentieth Century Literature. Vol. 35, Issue 1. (74-88).
- JONES, Leisha. (2011). "Contemporary Bildungsromans and the Prosumer Girl. Criti- cism.
- Vol. 53, Issue 3. (439-469).
- LANDOW, George P. (1990). "History, His Story, and Stories in Graham Swift’s Wa- terland". Studies in the Literary Imagination. Vol. 23, Issue 2. (197-211).
- MARAIS, Mike. (2014). "'I am Infinitely Strange to Myself': Existentialism, the Bild- ungsroman, and John Fowles’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman". Journal of Narrative Theory. Vol. 44, Issue 2. (244-266).
- MCKINNEY, Ronald H. (1997). "The Greening of Postmodernism: Graham Swift’s Waterland". New Literary History. Vol. 28, Issue 4. (821-832).
- RUBINSON, Gregory J. (2000). "History’s Genres: Julian Barnes’s A History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters". Modern Language Studies. Vol. 30, Issue 2. (159- 179).
- SOUTHGATE, Beverley. (2009). "Why Dryasdust?: Historians in Fiction". Historically Speaking. Vol. 10, Issue 2. (12-13).
- SWIFT, Graham. (2010). Waterland. London: Picador.
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| Primary Language | English |
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| Journal Section | Articles |
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| Publication Date | July 9, 2015 |
| Published in Issue | Year 2015Volume: 39 Issue: 2 |
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