Abstract
A Joycean notion borrowed from military history, the 3scorched-earth´ principle entails exploring specific narrative strategies or themes to the fullest, as if to exhaust them as artistic or ideological resources. The Kindly Ones seems to seek a maximal, sequel-preempting development of the theme of a Nazi perpetrator who represents himself as a victim. This paper discusses the enhancement of motifs and narrative strategies (such as the unreliable narrator, reader-entrapment, and allusion as a principle of plot-construction) at the service of this agenda, while underlining corresponding motifs and techniques in Flaubert, Joyce, Hemingway, Pasternak, and Nabokov. Of course, scorched earth cannot be expected to lie fallow for long.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Faux Titre |
Publisher | Brill Academic Publishers |
Pages | 153-163 |
Number of pages | 11 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2012 |
Publication series
Name | Faux Titre |
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Volume | 381 |
ISSN (Print) | 0167-9392 |
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