History as metafiction: a study of three European postmodern novels, Graham Swift’s Waterland (1983), Umberto Eco’s Foucault’s Pendulum (1989), and Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984).

This thesis is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Arts in English, 2017.

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Autor principal:	Kamol, Md. Kamrul Hassan
Altres autors:	Islam, Dr Syed Mazoorul
Format:	Thesis
Publicat:	BRAC University 2018
Matèries:	History Metafiction Postmodern novel Europe Waterland Foucault’s Pendulum The Unbearable Lightness of Being Graham Swift Umberto Eco Milan Kundera
Accés en línia:	http://hdl.handle.net/10361/9278

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spelling	10361-92782019-09-30T03:18:51Z History as metafiction: a study of three European postmodern novels, Graham Swift’s Waterland (1983), Umberto Eco’s Foucault’s Pendulum (1989), and Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984). Kamol, Md. Kamrul Hassan Islam, Dr Syed Mazoorul Department of English and Humanities, BRAC University History Metafiction Postmodern novel Europe Waterland Foucault’s Pendulum The Unbearable Lightness of Being Graham Swift Umberto Eco Milan Kundera This thesis is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Arts in English, 2017. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (pages 45-47). The aim of this paper is to examine how postmodern novels self-consciously synchronize history in fiction. To be more precise, how and why history has been used in metafictional dimension as a postmodern discourse. In order to discuss the idea of history as metafiction, this paper has attempted to present a background of modernism and it’s legacies; and how postmodernism emerged as an cultural phenomenon. History is a contested idea, and how postmodernism approaches the idea of history is also discussed to clarify why metafictional writing is significant to postmodern discourse. And lastly to illustrate the idea of history as metafiction this paper consolidates on three novels Waterland (1983), Foucault’s Pendulum (1989) and The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984). Md Kamrul Hassan Kamol M.A. in English 2018-01-29T05:54:29Z 2018-01-29T05:54:29Z 2017-04 Thesis ID 14263010 http://hdl.handle.net/10361/9278 BRAC University thesis are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. 47 pages application/pdf BRAC University
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topic	History Metafiction Postmodern novel Europe Waterland Foucault’s Pendulum The Unbearable Lightness of Being Graham Swift Umberto Eco Milan Kundera
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description	This thesis is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Arts in English, 2017.
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title	History as metafiction: a study of three European postmodern novels, Graham Swift’s Waterland (1983), Umberto Eco’s Foucault’s Pendulum (1989), and Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984).
title_short	History as metafiction: a study of three European postmodern novels, Graham Swift’s Waterland (1983), Umberto Eco’s Foucault’s Pendulum (1989), and Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984).
title_full	History as metafiction: a study of three European postmodern novels, Graham Swift’s Waterland (1983), Umberto Eco’s Foucault’s Pendulum (1989), and Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984).
title_fullStr	History as metafiction: a study of three European postmodern novels, Graham Swift’s Waterland (1983), Umberto Eco’s Foucault’s Pendulum (1989), and Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984).
title_full_unstemmed	History as metafiction: a study of three European postmodern novels, Graham Swift’s Waterland (1983), Umberto Eco’s Foucault’s Pendulum (1989), and Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984).
title_sort	history as metafiction: a study of three european postmodern novels, graham swift’s waterland (1983), umberto eco’s foucault’s pendulum (1989), and milan kundera’s the unbearable lightness of being (1984).
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History as metafiction: a study of three European postmodern novels, Graham Swift’s Waterland (1983), Umberto Eco’s Foucault’s Pendulum (1989), and Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984).

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