역사적 성찰의 문학: 진실에 다가서는 상상력—'혹스무어'의 공간화한 시간
Literature of Historical Reflection: Imagination toward Truth —Spatialised Time in Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor
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This paper deals with Hawksmoor, which is one of historically self-conscious novels, so to speak, ‘historiographic metafiction’ of 1980s in Britain. The author Peter Ackroyd, who has been also a well-known biographer, does not separate historical consciousness from literature and thinks that there is no real difference among biography, history and fiction. Ackroyd is obsessively fascinated with historical events and processes of the distant and more recent past, but in doing so, he uses not only multiple post-modern techniques but also very realistic narrative methods of the conventional British fiction. In Hawksmoor, Ackroyd invents two characters—Nicholas Dyer and Nicholas Hawksmoor—from Nicholas Hawksmoor of historical figure. Based on the real existed man and his architectures in history, the novel has a double plot composed of a series of parallel eighteenth- and twentieth-century murders narrated in double languages of two periods. It shows that the different time and space fuse into one and fiction infiltrates into the uncertainty of historical facts. Hawksmoor presents a spatialised view of history, which lets historical perception escape from the linear time. In such a view, everything has already happened and simultaneously is yet to come so that it may be repeated in the future like the haunting reenactment of the past. It obscures the distinctions between past and present that conventional history claims. Through the exquisitely historical impersonation represented by the narrative with the past language, Hawksmoor tries to decentre contemporary sensibilities, reserve itself to estranging, and enlarge mutation of narrative form and language. At the same time, contemporary readers both experience eviction and displacement from the text and enjoy historical language and consciousness in the novel. It makes the reader risk confirming rather than disturbing his/her historical confidence, and further restores the reader whole to his/her sense of historical belonging.
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This paper deals with Hawksmoor, which is one of historically self-conscious novels, so to speak, ‘historiographic metafiction’ of 1980s in Britain. The author Peter Ackroyd, who has been also a well-known biographer, does not separate historical consciousness from literature and thinks that there is no real difference among biography, history and fiction. Ackroyd is obsessively fascinated with historical events and processes of the distant and more recent past, but in doing so, he uses not only multiple post-modern techniques but also very realistic narrative methods of the conventional British fiction. In Hawksmoor, Ackroyd invents two characters—Nicholas Dyer and Nicholas Hawksmoor—from Nicholas Hawksmoor of historical figure. Based on the real existed man and his architectures in history, the novel has a double plot composed of a series of parallel eighteenth- and twentieth-century murders narrated in double languages of two periods. It shows that the different time and space fuse into one and fiction infiltrates into the uncertainty of historical facts. Hawksmoor presents a spatialised view of history, which lets historical perception escape from the linear time. In such a view, everything has already happened and simultaneously is yet to come so that it may be repeated in the future like the haunting reenactment of the past. It obscures the distinctions between past and present that conventional history claims. Through the exquisitely historical impersonation represented by the narrative with the past language, Hawksmoor tries to decentre contemporary sensibilities, reserve itself to estranging, and enlarge mutation of narrative form and language. At the same time, contemporary readers both experience eviction and displacement from the text and enjoy historical language and consciousness in the novel. It makes the reader risk confirming rather than disturbing his/her historical confidence, and further restores the reader whole to his/her sense of historical belonging.
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