SCENIC AND DRAMATIC MANIFESTATIONS OF THEATRICALITY IN POSTMODERN LITERARY DISCOURSE
Keywords:
intermediality, linguopoetics, intermedial reference, postmodernism, scenography, dramaticism
Abstract
The paper aims at examining the specificity of scenic and dramatic manifestations of theatricality in postmodernist literature. Intermediality studies and linguopoetics function as the theoretical and methodological basis of eliciting textual representations of theatricality. Following this approach, theatricality is viewed as an intracompositional form of intermediality manifested at micro- and macrotextual levels, lexical-semantic, imagistic, compositional, and narrative among them. The notions of ‘scenic’ and ‘dramatic’ are construed as crucial parameters of theatricality based on the conventions of theatrical art. Special attention is given to explicating instances of ‘scenic’ and ‘dramatic’ characteristics of theatricality in such postmodernist novels as M. Atwood’s Hag-Seed and I. Murdoch’s The Sea, The Sea.
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5. Bertens, H. & Fokkema D. W. (Eds.). (1997). International Postmodernism: Theory and Literary Practice. Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages (Vol. 11.). Amsterdam− Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co.
6. Brecht, B. (1974). Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic. (J. Willett Ed. & Trans.). Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag.
7. De Toro, F. (1995). Theatre Semiotics: Text and Staging in Modern Theatre. (C. Hubbard Ed. & J. Lewis Trans.). Toronto−Buffalo: University of Toronto Press.
8. Elleström, L. (2010). Media Borders, Multimodality and Intermediality. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan.
9. Elleström, L. (2020). The Modalities of Media II: An Expanded Model for Understanding Intermedial Relations. In L. Elleström (Ed.), Beyond Media Borders. Intermedial Relations among Multimodal Media (pp.3–91). Gewerbestrasse: Palgrave Macmillan.
10. Herman, D., Jahn, M. & Ryan, M.-L. (Eds.). (2008). Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory. London and New York: Routledge
11. Johansson, C., Petersson, S., Holdar M., & Callahan S. (Eds.). (2018). The Power of the In-Between: Intermediality as a Tool for Aesthetic Analysis and Critical Reflection. Stockholm: Stockholm University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16993/baq. License: CC-BY
12. McHale, B. (1992). Constructing Рostmodernism. London and New York: Routledge.
13. Murdoch, I. (1980). The Sea, The Sea. London: Penguin Books.
14. Pavis, P. (2016). The Routledge Dictionary of Contemporary Theatre and Performance. (A. Brown Trans.). London and New York: Routledge.
15. Pennacchia Punzi, M. (Ed.). (2007). Literary Intermediality: The Transit of Literature Through the Media Circuit. Bern: Peter Lang.
16. Rajewsky, I. O. (2005). “Intermediality, Intertextuality and Remediation: A Literary Perspective on Intermedialityˮ. Intermédialités 6, 43–64. https://doi.org/10.7202/1005505ar
17. Rarenko, N. (2021). “Theatricality of Postmodernist Literary Text: An Intermediality Perspective.ˮ The International Journal of Literary Humanities 19 (2): 1–8. doi:10.18848/2327-7912/CGP/v19i02/1-8.
18. Rippl, G. (Ed.). (2015). Handbook of Intermediality: Literature ‒ Image ‒ Sound – Music. Berlin–Boston: Walter De Gruyter.
19. Ryan, M.-L. (2014). Story/Worlds/Media: Tuning the Instruments of a Media-Conscious Narratology. In M.-L. Ryan & J.-N. Thon (Eds.), Storyworlds across Media: Toward a Media-Conscious Narratology. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press.
20. Schröter, J. (2011). Discourses and Models of Intermediality. CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 13(3). https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.1790
21. Shakespeare, W. (2006). As You Like It. (J. Dusinberre Ed.). London: Arden Shakespeare.
22. Urdang, L. (1994). The Oxford Thesaurus: An A-Z Dictionary of Synonyms (7th ed.). London: BCA.
23. Vorobyova, O. (2017). Virtual Narrative in Virginia Woolf’s ‟A Simple Melodyˮ: Cognitive and Semiotic Implications. In E. Chrzanowska-Kluczewska & O. Vorobyova (Eds.), Language − Literature − the Arts: A Cognitive-Semiotic Interface (pp. 95−112). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. https://doi.org/10.3726/b10692
24. Vorobyova, O. (2020). Virginia Woolf’s “Blue & Green” revisited: Dimensions of the research space. Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis (SLing) 137(4), 327−335. DOI 10.4467/20834624SL.20.023.12985
25. Wolf, W. (1999). The Musicalization of Fiction: A Study in the Theory and History of Intermediality. Amsterdam–Atlanta, GA: Rodopi.
26. Wolf, W. (2011). (Inter)mediality and the Study of Literature. CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 13(3). https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.1789
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Published
2021-08-20
How to Cite
Rarenko, N. (2021). SCENIC AND DRAMATIC MANIFESTATIONS OF THEATRICALITY IN POSTMODERN LITERARY DISCOURSE. Scientific Journal of Polonia University, 44(1), 123-130. https://doi.org/10.23856/4414
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