Archaicstructuresas Imaginative Counter-Discourse

Funda Civelekoğlu

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Archaicstructuresas Imaginative Counter-Discourse

Abstract

InChuckPalahniuk'sRant:AnOralBiographyofBıısterCasey,a picaresque eccentric Buster "Rant" Casey appears in the spotlight in the "stories" mythologically told in a postmodern manner. Rant reminds of Patrick Süskind's antihero, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille flamboyantly, attributable to his fantastic features. Within the scope of "literature as cultural ecology," transgressive Rant becomes the flesh and blood form of "mythical" dialectics of enlightenment, which is reinforced through his connoting archaic structures. His intrusion to the "healthy" American society appears as a reminiscent of Dionysus' entrance to Pentheus' city, Theben, in Euripides' The Bacchae. Comparing the biographies of Rant and Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, this article attempts to demonstrate how the archaic and prerational "mythemes" in both novels become the very representation of the imaginative counter-discourse in Hubert Zapf's triadic functionmodel.

Keywords

Transgression,Hubert Zapf,cultural ecology,imaginative counter discourse,Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey

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English

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Journal Section

Research Article

Authors

Funda Civelekoğlu ^* This is me

Publication Date

January 1, 2011

Submission Date

January 1, 2011

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Year 2011 Volume: 24 Number: 1

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https://izlik.org/JA36UU67TZ

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APA

Civelekoğlu, F. (2011). Archaicstructuresas Imaginative Counter-Discourse. Litera: Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, 24(1), 1-12. https://izlik.org/JA36UU67TZ

AMA

1.Civelekoğlu F. Archaicstructuresas Imaginative Counter-Discourse. Litera. 2011;24(1):1-12. https://izlik.org/JA36UU67TZ

Chicago

Civelekoğlu, Funda. 2011. “Archaicstructuresas Imaginative Counter-Discourse”. Litera: Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies 24 (1): 1-12. https://izlik.org/JA36UU67TZ.

EndNote

Civelekoğlu F (January 1, 2011) Archaicstructuresas Imaginative Counter-Discourse. Litera: Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies 24 1 1–12.

IEEE

[1]F. Civelekoğlu, “Archaicstructuresas Imaginative Counter-Discourse”, Litera, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 1–12, Jan. 2011, [Online]. Available: https://izlik.org/JA36UU67TZ

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Civelekoğlu, Funda. “Archaicstructuresas Imaginative Counter-Discourse”. Litera: Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies 24/1 (January 1, 2011): 1-12. https://izlik.org/JA36UU67TZ.

JAMA

1.Civelekoğlu F. Archaicstructuresas Imaginative Counter-Discourse. Litera. 2011;24:1–12.

MLA

Civelekoğlu, Funda. “Archaicstructuresas Imaginative Counter-Discourse”. Litera: Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, vol. 24, no. 1, Jan. 2011, pp. 1-12, https://izlik.org/JA36UU67TZ.

Vancouver

1.Funda Civelekoğlu. Archaicstructuresas Imaginative Counter-Discourse. Litera [Internet]. 2011 Jan. 1;24(1):1-12. Available from: https://izlik.org/JA36UU67TZ