“Naipaulexity”: critical convention, “Theory Renaissance” and V. S. Naipaul
AbstractThe works of the Nobel laureate Sir Vidiadhar Surajparasad Naipaul, generally known as V. S. Naipaul, have been more criticized than critiqued. This tends to put his creative aspiration in oblivion and initiate a discourse that is quite personal, subjective, and degenerative in nature. This...
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| description | AbstractThe works of the Nobel laureate Sir Vidiadhar Surajparasad Naipaul, generally known as V. S. Naipaul, have been more criticized than critiqued. This tends to put his creative aspiration in oblivion and initiate a discourse that is quite personal, subjective, and degenerative in nature. This paper using the idea of “Naipaulexity’ and “Theory Renaissance” as elaborated below and adopting a deconstructive model of analysis of four of his fictions as examples, contends that a prolific writer like Naipaul has suffered the offense of a judgmental, critical fallacy, in its conventional readership and therefore it needs a serious scrutiny. It aims to arrive at this contention through the analysis of four of his fictions, demonstrating how there evolves a counter-discourse from his texts that virtually underscores the myopic conventional criticism. Naipaulian texts are dense and thick, and accordingly demand a similar approach to their understanding. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-fe7b36c390b44717895b9bffab33dfcf2024-01-19T07:15:07ZengTaylor & Francis GroupCogent Arts & Humanities2331-19832024-12-0111110.1080/23311983.2023.2300199“Naipaulexity”: critical convention, “Theory Renaissance” and V. S. NaipaulMohammad Rezaul Karim0Ramesh Sharma1Department of English Language and Literature, College of Science and Humanities, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Al Kharj, Saudi ArabiaDepartment of English, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Assam Don Bosco University, Assam, IndiaAbstractThe works of the Nobel laureate Sir Vidiadhar Surajparasad Naipaul, generally known as V. S. Naipaul, have been more criticized than critiqued. This tends to put his creative aspiration in oblivion and initiate a discourse that is quite personal, subjective, and degenerative in nature. This paper using the idea of “Naipaulexity’ and “Theory Renaissance” as elaborated below and adopting a deconstructive model of analysis of four of his fictions as examples, contends that a prolific writer like Naipaul has suffered the offense of a judgmental, critical fallacy, in its conventional readership and therefore it needs a serious scrutiny. It aims to arrive at this contention through the analysis of four of his fictions, demonstrating how there evolves a counter-discourse from his texts that virtually underscores the myopic conventional criticism. Naipaulian texts are dense and thick, and accordingly demand a similar approach to their understanding.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/23311983.2023.2300199Theoryrenaissancetheory renaissancestudiescomplexitydiscourse |
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