Archaicstructuresas Imaginative Counter-Discourse
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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.
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1 Ocak 2011
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