2021-03-01 at 09:36:04
Teodorescu Florina Raluca from West University of Timișoara
will present Alternate Literary Universes. The Rewriting Phenomenon
Abstract
In a contemporary literary universe, where the boundaries of literature have broadened exponentially, there is a need to search for means of understanding not only the value of the topical fiction, but also its relation to classical literature. In the attempt to create such a theoretical bridge, one must find one’s self in the position of using powerful, stable and reliable instruments.
Our paper is doing the same, by trying to explore the topicality of canonical novels and the legitimacy of contemporary rewritings (fan fiction) of the same novel and the link between the two literary worlds. Thus, our reliable instruments that will help create the theoretical bridge are taken from different areas of literary criticism, such as the theoretical concepts of mimetic desire, intertextuality, decentring and reader-response theory. This way, we intend to legitimise the existence of rewritings and to argue that they are mainly an appendix to the original text.
In section
British and Commonwealth Literature