예측불허의 자아를 넘어서― 『떠도는 오페라호』를 근거로
Beyond an Unpredictable Self: Based on The Floating Opera
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This paper examines John Barth's writing philosophy and technique embodied in The Floating Opera, and analyzes the novel. Together with John Hawkes, Raymond Federman, William H. Gass, and Thomas Pynchon, John Barth denies the writing philosophy and technique of the novels of realism and modernism, which are too exhausted and have little appeal to readers. However, he is quite different from these postmodern writers in the idea of plot and language. He lays a stress on plot that is ignored and denied by postmodern writers. His plot is not realized through telling something about whatness, but by means of imagination and language use. His plot does not depend on constancy, certainty, objectivity, and absoluteness, but on change, ambiguity, subjectivity, and relativeness, either. He contends that meaning precedes language. His contention is opposite to postmodern writers' idea that language is foremost. Barth has written The Floating Opera on his philosophy of plot and language and technique of reflecting it. Todd Andrews, hero of the novel, is controlled and dominated by unpredictable persons, who deny absolute value and meaning which have been paradigm of human existence. So his life depends on an unpredictable self and masks, which bring about chaos and meaninglessness in existence. At last he abandons his absolute belief in a mask, receives his disease of heart as it is, and exists beyond an unpredictable self.
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This paper examines John Barth's writing philosophy and technique embodied in The Floating Opera, and analyzes the novel. Together with John Hawkes, Raymond Federman, William H. Gass, and Thomas Pynchon, John Barth denies the writing philosophy and technique of the novels of realism and modernism, which are too exhausted and have little appeal to readers. However, he is quite different from these postmodern writers in the idea of plot and language. He lays a stress on plot that is ignored and denied by postmodern writers. His plot is not realized through telling something about whatness, but by means of imagination and language use. His plot does not depend on constancy, certainty, objectivity, and absoluteness, but on change, ambiguity, subjectivity, and relativeness, either. He contends that meaning precedes language. His contention is opposite to postmodern writers' idea that language is foremost. Barth has written The Floating Opera on his philosophy of plot and language and technique of reflecting it. Todd Andrews, hero of the novel, is controlled and dominated by unpredictable persons, who deny absolute value and meaning which have been paradigm of human existence. So his life depends on an unpredictable self and masks, which bring about chaos and meaninglessness in existence. At last he abandons his absolute belief in a mask, receives his disease of heart as it is, and exists beyond an unpredictable self.
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