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Alasdair gray’s lanark in the scottish contemporary scene: a matter of postmodern identity |
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Maria Izabel Velazquez Domingues
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Teses e Dissertações |
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Inglês |
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[cp] Programas de Pós-graduação da CAPES
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UFRGS/LETRAS |
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LETRAS |
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2010 |
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This is a critical reading of Lanark: a Life in Four Books, a novel by the Scottish writer Alasdair Gray (b. 1934), whose talent and style provide a fitting example of Scotland’s contemporary literature. The aim of this investigation is to determine the role played by Gray’s production in the literary, cultural and
sociopolitical spheres of present-day Scottish life. In his blending of fiction and
metafiction, of art and autobiography, the author faces the paradoxes involved in the
attempt to stress the marks of a national identity. Gray’s work cannot be considered
without recognizing that his literature is both local and universal. It belongs to the
Scottish cosmos which is highlighted by cultural struggles as well as it is dominant,
once it is carried out in the English Language reaching readers all over the world
from within the limits and format determined by the English Language. That is one of
the reasons why this research aims to shed light on the current Scottish literary
scene, attempting to fill an existing gap in the Brazilian academic curriculum respecting the treatment and approach of Literatures produced in English in our undergraduate and graduate courses. The dissertation is divided into three parts. The first contextualizes Gray in Scotland’s literature in its relation to the formation, ratification and revaluation of the concept of a sense of national identity as observed diachronically, throughout the period between 1940s and 1970s. The second section
focuses on the new looks at Scotland’s cultural scenario by a distinguished group of writers burst with style, history and post-devolution vision, the New Scottish Writers. Gray’s strategies to deal with a fictional and biographical context in Lanark and his reflection upon world’s nature and worth are of great importance for this work. By the reading of Linda Hutcheon’s understanding on historiographic metafiction, intertextuality, parody and irony in postmodernism, I attempt to frame in Chapter
Three the literary maneuvers Gray makes in using such textual resources in his novel. I hope that the result of this doctoral thesis may be useful both as a reflection upon the present state of the discussion about Scotland’s postmodern literature, and as a means of making the Brazilian academic readers more familiar with the
work of Alasdair Gray.
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