Dujmović Markusi, Dragica.
(2016).
Self-referentiality in Ranko Marinković's narrative fiction.
PhD Thesis. Filozofski fakultet u Zagrebu, Department of Croatian Language and Literature.
(Poslijediplomski doktorski studij hrvatske kulture)
[mentor Nemec, Krešimir].
Abstract
This dissertation investigates the self-referential quality of Ranko Marinković's
narrative fiction by focusing on its two levels – modernist and postmodern. In other
words, Marinković's narrative works are read with the purpose of analysing how
modernist self-referentiality, which implies faith in both the author's and the text's
power, translates into postmodern self-referentiality, which expresses distrust in that
same power while simultaneously questioning literature's social status.
The dissertation argues that Ranko Marinković's narrative fiction is
characterized by the diachronic progression of authorial self-awareness which also
pertains to the diachronic transition of Marinković's narrative fiction from its modernist
footing to postmodernism. The author is thus particulary interested in the relationship
between art and life, namely the paradoxical quality of literary text which is at the same
time referential and self-referential. This questioning results in a self-ironic perspective:
Marinković's narrative fiction employs ironic, grotesque and ludic self-referentiality
which takes on the form of self-referential and metatextual commentary, particulary in
the two metanarrative texts, thus demonstrating how one paradigme supplants antoher,
namely how modernism translates into postmodernism.
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