Original scientific paper
Metalepsis and Playing with Functions of Literary Texts in Bratoljub Klaić’s Spoofs
Kornelija Kuvač-Levačić
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Abstract
In its narratological sense, metalepsis is a paradoxical contamination between the world of the telling and the world of the told (Genette). Metalepsis has also been characterized as that which undermines the separation between narration and story. This paper analyzes the way in which metalepsis creates an auto-ironic effect in some of the comic tales of Bratoljub Klaić that are to be found in his work ‘Pripovijetke’ (2009). The main issue of this research is to show the stylistic and narrative characteristics of Klaić’s literary output by taking some of the aspects of postmodernism into consideration; these include metalepsis, the undermining of the separation between fact and fiction, the literary and non-literary, metanarrative and auto-referentiality and an ironic approach toward canonical literature.
Keywords
Klaić; metalepsis; function of literature; metanarrative; autobiographical discourse
Hrčak ID:
131501
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Publication date:
24.12.2014.
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