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000099167 100__ $$0(orcid)0000-0001-7335-7690$$aMartínez, María Jesús$$uUniversidad de Zaragoza
000099167 245__ $$a“Parasites, Plagiarists, and ‘Fictual’ Stories in Charles Palliser’s ‘A Nice Touch’ and ‘The Catch’”
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000099167 5203_ $$aThe present article focuses on Charles Palliser's Betrayals (1994) and analyses two of its chapters, "A Nice Touch" and "The Catch", in order to illustrate how the seemingly random collection of sections that make up the novel constitute variations on the same themes and strategies. By discussing the connections between these two chapters, I intend to throw light on the coherence that emerges from the novel's undeniable fragmentariness. Central among its recurrent motifs is the theme of betrayal, which the article approaches through an analysis of plagiarism from the perspective of J. Hillis Miller's logic of the parasite. Drawing on this deconstructionist critic, I show how the undecidability of roles (betrayer-betrayed, plagiariser-plagiarised, host-parasite) in the chapters under consideration is echoed by the narrative’s play with ontological levels and the blurring of boundaries between reality and fiction. The analysis leads to a final reflection on fragmentary texts that often exploit intertextuality and metafictional techniques as best fitting the contemporary worldview, and it closes with the proposal to consider Betrayals as one of the harbingers of what has become a prolific trend in twenty-first century literature.
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000099167 593__ $$aLinguistics and Language$$c2020$$dQ3
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000099167 7102_ $$13004$$2345$$aUniversidad de Zaragoza$$bDpto. Filolog.Inglesa y Alema.$$cÁrea Filología Inglesa
000099167 773__ $$g46, 2 (2020), 211-229$$pBrno Stud. Engl.$$tBrno Studies in English$$x0524-6881
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