Author/Authors :
COŞKUN, Zehra Fatih University - Dept of English Language and Literature, Turkey
Title Of Article :
WATERLAND: A POSTMODERN STORY OF REVOLUTION
Abstract :
This study analyzes Waterland as a postmodern Bildungsroman by emphasizing its post-structuralist content and form. Graham Swift’s novel reflects the postmodern individual’s infinite quest to understand himself and the world. The quest reveals a post-structural essence that is marked with concepts such as différance and cyclicality where meaning is infinitely differed. Thus, the Existenz of the postmodern individual bears a fluid, in other words cyclical nature, which is also reflected in the novel’s new historicist approach to reality and history. This study aspires to display the temporality of Existenz which is shaped in relation to social structure and to the interpretation of life’s significance in a postmodernist paradigm.
NaturalLanguageKeyword :
Bildungsroman , Graham Swift , Waterland , Postmodernism , Post , Structuralism , Existenz , Existentialism , Identity , New Historicism
JournalTitle :
Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi
