Original scientific paper
Autostylization as a Literary Device in the Poetics of Daniela Hodrová’s Fiction
Ivana Kočevski
; Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade
Abstract
The essay points out the specific narration in Daniela Hodrová’s fiction that relates to autostylization. The author’s personal and biographical self-reflexive information in her various novels are seen as part of the postmodernist strategy of creating fictional prose. The autostylization technique refers to the author’s self-identification with characters in a novel, narrator’s vague identity, narration in Ich-form with a narrator’s voice that doesn’t entirely belong neither to the world of a novel, nor to the world of the reader, but coexists in both worlds simultaneously. The study also considers the role and the function of a subject in literary narrative underlining the views of Jan Mukařovský about the fact that literary work should consider only aesthetical function and be understood as a sign, disregarding the author’s personality. The inquiry about autostylization operates with Hodrová’s ideas and theories concerning the definition of a character-hypothesis, text-weaving and text-web, and focusing on variable aspects of narrator’s role as well as the reader’s response in co-creating both content and the meaning of literary work.
Keywords
Daniela Hodrová; autostylization; self-reflexive fiction; narration; Czech literature
Hrčak ID:
249461
URI
Publication date:
29.12.2020.
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