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Volume : I, Issue : XI, December - 2011 History between Oblivion and Storytelling in Graham Swift's Waterland Ecaterina Pãtraºcu DOI : 10.9780/22307850, Published By : Laxmi Book Publication Abstract : The article focuses on Graham Swift's Waterland from the history – temporality dialectical
perspective against the theoretical background of the postmodern view on history and the presence of a
realistic trend in the British contemporary novel. Swift's novel illustrates the postmodern characteristics of a
pluralist perspective on history, with past events as plausible constructions, discourses modeled on
imagination as well; on the other hand, it is a sustainable illustration of the realist tendency in the British
contemporary fiction, Swift's novel treating history and temporality as palpable pressures that require to be
understood and rebuilt in spite of memories remaining incomplete and histories lacking credibility.
Storytelling functions as a modality of saving time against its self-destructive oblivion, the only modality by
means of which temporality becomes meaningful in spite of fact randomness. Keywords : Article : Cite This Article : Ecaterina Pãtraºcu, (2011). History between Oblivion and Storytelling in Graham Swift's Waterland. Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. I, Issue. XI, DOI : 10.9780/22307850, http://oldisrj.lbp.world/UploadedData/603.pdf References : - Barnes, Julian, A History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters, New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. Berdiaev, Nikolai, Sensul istoriei, Iasi, Polirom, 1996.
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- Graham Swift, op. cit., p.150. Ibidem, p.160.
- Ibidem, p.134.
- Ibidem, p.201
- Ibidem, p.155
- Ibidem, p.176.
- Ibidem,p. 214.
- Ibidem, p.181.
- Ibidem, p. 211.
- Ibidem, p.213.
- Ibidem, p.200.
- Ibidem, p.254.
- Ibidem, p. 156.
- Ibidem, p.131.
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