Postmodern Fantasy: The Supernatural in Gray’s Comedy of the White Dog and Welsh’s Granton Star Cause
Alasdair Gray’s short story “The Comedy of the White Dog” was published in 1984 in a collection entitled Unlikely Stories, Mostly, a publication which coincides with the revival of the writing of fantasy in Britain. As the academic critic Patricia Waugh pointed out in Harvest of the Sixties, the no...
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Études écossaises
2020
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| オンライン･アクセス: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| 要約: | Alasdair Gray’s short story “The Comedy of the White Dog” was published in 1984 in a collection entitled Unlikely Stories, Mostly, a publication which coincides with the revival of the writing of fantasy in Britain. As the academic critic Patricia Waugh pointed out in Harvest of the Sixties, the novel in the eighties “took a distinctly fantastic turn” which, combined with “essayistic narratorial intrusions”, emphasised the fantastic as a revision of the supernatural for postmodern purposes. ... |
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