The mythopoetics of debt: exploring the works of Ismail Kadare
<p>This thesis examines the novels of the Albanian writer Ismail Kadare. It studies four novels: <i>Les Tambours de la pluie</i> [<i>Kështjella</i>], <i>Qui a ramené Doruntine ?</i> [<i>Kush e solli Doruntinën</i>], <i>Le Général de l’armée...
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| description | <p>This thesis examines the novels of the Albanian writer Ismail Kadare. It studies four novels: <i>Les Tambours de la pluie</i> [<i>Kështjella</i>], <i>Qui a ramené Doruntine ?</i> [<i>Kush e solli Doruntinën</i>], <i>Le Général de l’armée morte</i> [<i>Gjenerali i ushtrisë së vdekur</i>], and <i>Le Palais des rêves</i> [<i>Pallati i Ëndrrave</i>]. The methodological angle of this thesis is two-fold. It investigates the formal devices of repetition, circularity and intertextuality in these texts, but it does so with the aim of exploring one central thematic complex: the idea of Albanian identity as it is imagined and refracted through a variety of perspectives in the novels. This dual methodological perspective―textual and thematic―also means that the aim of this thesis is two-fold. It makes a contribution to scholarship on Kadare by demonstrating a formal and thematic coherence within some of his major works. It also makes a contribution to a wider context of critical and scholarly discourse on the Balkans. First, the intervention I make in this field is characterised by the decision to follow Kadare in his predominantly national, rather than a more broadly regional, perspective. In his works, this national perspective is self-reflexive. As his novels show in their rewriting of historical events and salient elements of folk morality, a reflection upon national identity is part of the national identity of Albania.</p>
<p>Second, and in continuity with this emphasis on self-reflexivity, the perspective that this thesis presents on cultural themes is always textual: it examines how themes are embedded in stories and how they become reinterpreted by narrative. Across this corpus of texts, and from the perspective of a movement from history to modernist abstraction, this thesis shows a fundamental continuity in Kadare’s artistic concern with questioning Albanian identity.</p> |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:5063af47-58af-4faf-bdd8-234fb60af7c72023-09-05T11:02:17ZThe mythopoetics of debt: exploring the works of Ismail KadareThesishttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_db06uuid:5063af47-58af-4faf-bdd8-234fb60af7c7FrenchAlbanian literatureLiteratureLiterature and folkloreEnglishHyrax Deposit2022Chaka, ZDue, R<p>This thesis examines the novels of the Albanian writer Ismail Kadare. It studies four novels: <i>Les Tambours de la pluie</i> [<i>Kështjella</i>], <i>Qui a ramené Doruntine ?</i> [<i>Kush e solli Doruntinën</i>], <i>Le Général de l’armée morte</i> [<i>Gjenerali i ushtrisë së vdekur</i>], and <i>Le Palais des rêves</i> [<i>Pallati i Ëndrrave</i>]. The methodological angle of this thesis is two-fold. It investigates the formal devices of repetition, circularity and intertextuality in these texts, but it does so with the aim of exploring one central thematic complex: the idea of Albanian identity as it is imagined and refracted through a variety of perspectives in the novels. This dual methodological perspective―textual and thematic―also means that the aim of this thesis is two-fold. It makes a contribution to scholarship on Kadare by demonstrating a formal and thematic coherence within some of his major works. It also makes a contribution to a wider context of critical and scholarly discourse on the Balkans. First, the intervention I make in this field is characterised by the decision to follow Kadare in his predominantly national, rather than a more broadly regional, perspective. In his works, this national perspective is self-reflexive. As his novels show in their rewriting of historical events and salient elements of folk morality, a reflection upon national identity is part of the national identity of Albania.</p> <p>Second, and in continuity with this emphasis on self-reflexivity, the perspective that this thesis presents on cultural themes is always textual: it examines how themes are embedded in stories and how they become reinterpreted by narrative. Across this corpus of texts, and from the perspective of a movement from history to modernist abstraction, this thesis shows a fundamental continuity in Kadare’s artistic concern with questioning Albanian identity.</p> |
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| title_full | The mythopoetics of debt: exploring the works of Ismail Kadare |
| title_fullStr | The mythopoetics of debt: exploring the works of Ismail Kadare |
| title_full_unstemmed | The mythopoetics of debt: exploring the works of Ismail Kadare |
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| topic | French Albanian literature Literature Literature and folklore |
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