„Avoiding Closure‟ and „Postmodern Temporality‟ in Barth‟s „On with the Story’
Postmodern temporality in literature, as it involves non-linear time and narration, creates a discrepancy between the narrated time and the temporal time of narration, and thus the order of events within a story are playfully dealt with. Complexities become more when there is no sense of ending i...
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| description | Postmodern temporality in literature, as it involves non-linear time and narration, creates a
discrepancy between the narrated time and the temporal time of narration, and thus the order of
events within a story are playfully dealt with. Complexities become more when there is no sense of
ending in such stories. John Barth‟s „On with the Story’ proves a good case in point in reflecting the
poetics of postmodernism by manipulating nonlinear progression of time with multidimensional,
discrete, and game-like temporality in creating flickering textual constructions, especially when he
puts no endings for his stories and avoids closure to mirror the breakdown of traditional narrative
values. Accordingly, the present paper tries to highlight Barth‟s narrative techniques in
foregrounding nonlinearity and open-endedness in his „On with the Story’. As such, the aim of the
study is to determine to what degree Barth‟s play with time and narration echo postmodern concerns
and how is possible to make sense of a postmodern story by investigating into its textual structure
than the mere course of events. Barth‟s achievement in the postmodern ground in this story, just like
his other ones, not only challenges traditional narrativity and temporality but also presents the reader
with a new sense of understanding reality as it is happening around us. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-45bff80c97b04394a500e7f7eede42b72022-12-21T21:59:55ZengLasting Impressions PressInternational Journal of English Language and Translation Studies2308-54602308-54602017-12-010504135140„Avoiding Closure‟ and „Postmodern Temporality‟ in Barth‟s „On with the Story’Mojgan Abshavi0Mahboobeh Taghvaei1Department of English, Payam-e-Noor University IranPayam-e-Noor University IranPostmodern temporality in literature, as it involves non-linear time and narration, creates a discrepancy between the narrated time and the temporal time of narration, and thus the order of events within a story are playfully dealt with. Complexities become more when there is no sense of ending in such stories. John Barth‟s „On with the Story’ proves a good case in point in reflecting the poetics of postmodernism by manipulating nonlinear progression of time with multidimensional, discrete, and game-like temporality in creating flickering textual constructions, especially when he puts no endings for his stories and avoids closure to mirror the breakdown of traditional narrative values. Accordingly, the present paper tries to highlight Barth‟s narrative techniques in foregrounding nonlinearity and open-endedness in his „On with the Story’. As such, the aim of the study is to determine to what degree Barth‟s play with time and narration echo postmodern concerns and how is possible to make sense of a postmodern story by investigating into its textual structure than the mere course of events. Barth‟s achievement in the postmodern ground in this story, just like his other ones, not only challenges traditional narrativity and temporality but also presents the reader with a new sense of understanding reality as it is happening around us.http://www.eltsjournal.org/archive/value5%20issue4/17-5-4-17.pdfNon-linear TimeJohn BarthOn with the StoryMultiple EndingsPostmodern Temporality |
| spellingShingle | Mojgan Abshavi Mahboobeh Taghvaei „Avoiding Closure‟ and „Postmodern Temporality‟ in Barth‟s „On with the Story’ International Journal of English Language and Translation Studies Non-linear Time John Barth On with the Story Multiple Endings Postmodern Temporality |
| title | „Avoiding Closure‟ and „Postmodern Temporality‟ in Barth‟s „On with the Story’ |
| title_full | „Avoiding Closure‟ and „Postmodern Temporality‟ in Barth‟s „On with the Story’ |
| title_fullStr | „Avoiding Closure‟ and „Postmodern Temporality‟ in Barth‟s „On with the Story’ |
| title_full_unstemmed | „Avoiding Closure‟ and „Postmodern Temporality‟ in Barth‟s „On with the Story’ |
| title_short | „Avoiding Closure‟ and „Postmodern Temporality‟ in Barth‟s „On with the Story’ |
| title_sort | avoiding closure and postmodern temporality in barth s on with the story |
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