dc.contributor.author | Henriksson, Åsa | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-10-09T14:32:45Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-10-09T14:32:45Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014-10-09 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2077/37157 | |
dc.description.abstract | The detective novel genre has long been a genre of conventions. Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy is a detective story with a twist that challenges the established conventions of the genre. In this essay, I will use narratology, with a focus on Roland Barthes’ S/Z, to study Auster’s text. I will show that it is by using the five codes that Barthes presents in S/Z, that I am able to display how Auster challenges the conventions. In this reading I will also relate The New York Trilogy to other detective fiction and to Barthes’ notion of ‘the death of the author’. Ultimately, I will show that Auster does confirm ‘the death of the author’. In the narratives the author is disseminated step by step, and eventually ceases to play an important role. | sv |
dc.language.iso | eng | sv |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | SPL magisteruppsats engelska | sv |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | SPL 2014-055 | sv |
dc.subject | Paul Auster | sv |
dc.subject | The New York Trilogy | sv |
dc.subject | The Death of the Author | sv |
dc.subject | Roland Barthes | sv |
dc.subject | Postmodernism | sv |
dc.subject | Narratology | sv |
dc.title | The Reader Strikes Back:A Narratological Approach to Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy | sv |
dc.type | Text | |
dc.setspec.uppsok | HumanitiesTheology | |
dc.type.uppsok | M2 | |
dc.contributor.department | University of Gothenburg/Department of Languages and Literatures | eng |
dc.contributor.department | Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer | swe |
dc.type.degree | Student essay | |