000064614 001__ 64614
000064614 005__ 20180207125352.0
000064614 037__ $$aTAZ-TFM-2017-1298
000064614 041__ $$aeng
000064614 1001_ $$aRodríguez Doñate, Javier
000064614 24200 $$aThe Paroxysm of Exhaustion: A Study of Will Self’s Dorian: An Imitation (2002)
000064614 24500 $$aEl Paroxismo del Agotamiento: Un Estudio de la novela de Will Self, Dorian: An Imitation (2002)
000064614 260__ $$aZaragoza$$bUniversidad de Zaragoza$$c2017
000064614 506__ $$aby-nc-sa$$bCreative Commons$$c3.0$$uhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
000064614 520__ $$aWill Self’s Dorian: An Imitation, first published in 2002, can be regarded as an extraordinarily accurate depiction of the process of decadence undergone by the postmodern paradigm which had prevailed since the 1960s. The date of publication of the novel justifies our contention that it heralds the death of postmodernism, since the most salient cultural trends that question the predominance of the postmodern paradigm originate a few years after the publication of the novel. By means of an ethical and an aesthetical reading of the text, the following essay aims to analyze the way in which this demise of the postmodern paradigm is foregrounded in Dorian: An Imitation through its deployment of major postmodern textual devices such as metafiction or intertextuality. To do so, the theoretical background to the analysis will rely on Linda Hutcheon’s and Patricia Waugh’s notions on these issues while Brian McHale’s and Roland Barthes’ insights into the issue of authorship will be essential for analysis, in the first section, of one of the most noticeable features of postmodernist fiction: the roles of author and reader. Further, the essay will focus on Baz Hallward’s work of art, Cathode Narcissus as the novel’s main postmodern artifact, characterized by mass-media elements that blur the ontological boundaries between reality and its representation. Finally, the essay will draw on the insights of philosophers of history such as Jean Baudrillard and Fredric Jameson for the analysis of the ideological stance of the novel. The aim of analyzing the novel from all these perspectives is to demonstrate that Will Self’s rewriting of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray problematizes the postmodern paradigm before it was generally contested and points towards the beginning of a new cultural paradigm emerging out of, and in reaction to the postmodern paradigm.
000064614 521__ $$aMáster Universitario en Estudios Avanzados de Literatura y Cine en Lengua Inglesa
000064614 540__ $$aDerechos regulados por licencia Creative Commons
000064614 700__ $$aOnega Jaén, Susana$$edir.
000064614 7102_ $$aUniversidad de Zaragoza$$bFilología Inglesa y Alemana$$cFilología Inglesa
000064614 8560_ $$f610867@celes.unizar.es
000064614 8564_ $$s118668$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/64614/files/TAZ-TFM-2017-1298_ANE.pdf$$yAnexos (eng)
000064614 8564_ $$s818344$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/64614/files/TAZ-TFM-2017-1298.pdf$$yMemoria (eng)
000064614 909CO $$ooai:zaguan.unizar.es:64614$$pdriver$$ptrabajos-fin-master
000064614 950__ $$a
000064614 951__ $$adeposita:2018-02-07
000064614 980__ $$aTAZ$$bTFM$$cFFYL