Truth is an odd number : : la narrativa di Flann O'Brien e il fantastico / / Valentina Milli.

Starting from the main theories about the imaginary - from the Freudian category of Unheimliche and the Todorovian category of hésitation up to the most recent contributions - the volume highlights the imaginary elements of instability in Flann O'Brien's narrative. In particular, the autho...

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Superior document:Biblioteca di Studi di Filologia Moderna ; 23
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Place / Publishing House:Firenze : : Firenze University Press,, 2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Biblioteca di Studi di Filologia Moderna ; 23.
Physical Description:1 online resource (272 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
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Summary:Starting from the main theories about the imaginary - from the Freudian category of Unheimliche and the Todorovian category of hésitation up to the most recent contributions - the volume highlights the imaginary elements of instability in Flann O'Brien's narrative. In particular, the author analyses the discontinuities and irreconcilable contradictions of the Irish writer's textual systems, the idiosyncratic and fragmented representation of the characters, the ambiguous coexistence of natural and supernatural, the problematic relationship between signifier and signified. Malapropisms, neologisms, linguistic tics, nonsense and a series of meta-narrative games seem to compromise the search for reliable answers within the Obrienian cosmos in which truth is, in fact, an odd number.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access:Open Access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Valentina Milli.