Areti, Dragas, The Return of the Storyteller in Contemporary Fiction

Since the modernist era, after the proclamation of the storyteller’s death by Benjamin, literature has focused on the figure of the author, as the sole individual responsible for the creation of a work. However, as Dragas argues in this comprehensive study, the interest of postmodern writers has ex...

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Publicado en:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ebc,
Autor principal: Cristofari, Cécile
Formato: Article ou chapitre numérique
Lenguaje:Anglais
Publicado: Études britanniques contemporaines 2015
Acceso en línea:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Sumario:Since the modernist era, after the proclamation of the storyteller’s death by Benjamin, literature has focused on the figure of the author, as the sole individual responsible for the creation of a work. However, as Dragas argues in this comprehensive study, the interest of postmodern writers has extended past the more conventional definitions of literary authorship and brought back the figure of the storyteller in a renewed form. Through the study of several contemporary authors, Dragas exam...