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dc.contributor.advisorDe Lange, A.M.
dc.contributor.authorVan der Westhuizen, Therina
dc.date.accessioned2014-09-19T12:55:22Z
dc.date.available2014-09-19T12:55:22Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10394/11400
dc.descriptionMA (English), North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2014.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation examines three novels by the author and critic A.S. Byatt, namely Possession (1990), Babel Tower (1996) and The Biographer’s Tale (2000), using a hermeneutic method of analysis. The investigation pays specific attention to the structure of the novels and how this compares to the structure of the ancient palimpsest. Theoretical information on the palimpsest as model is based on relevant writings by Thomas Carlyle (1830, 1833), Thomas De Quincey (1845) through to Josephine McDonagh (1987), Gérard Genette (1997) and Sarah Dillon (2007). The ensuing argument is that Byatt’s use of postmodernist pseudo-intertextuality and intertextuality cause her novels to have a palimpsestic structure of various layers, with the effect that textual boundaries are transgressed. Ultimately Byatt’s writing strategies result in ontological uncertainty for the reader.en_US
dc.subjectA.S. Byatten_US
dc.subjectWritingen_US
dc.subjectReadingen_US
dc.subjectThe palimpsesten_US
dc.subjectPalimpsestuousen_US
dc.subjectIntertextualityen_US
dc.subjectIntratextualityen_US
dc.subjectPostmodernismen_US
dc.subjectOntological uncertaintyen_US
dc.subjectTransgressing (textual) boundariesen_US
dc.subjectPossession (1990)en_US
dc.subjectBabel Tower (1996)en_US
dc.subjectThe Biographer’s Tale (2000)en_US
dc.subjectSkryfwerken_US
dc.subjectLeesen_US
dc.subjectDie palimpsesen_US
dc.subjectPalimpses-agtigen_US
dc.subjectIntertekstualiteiten_US
dc.subjectIntratekstualiteiten_US
dc.subjectPostmodernismeen_US
dc.subjectOntologiese onsekerheiden_US
dc.subjectOortreding van (tekstuele) grenseen_US
dc.titlePalimpsestic writing and crossing textual boundaries in selected novels by A.S. Byatten
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.description.thesistypeMastersen_US
dc.contributor.researchID10064354 - De Lange, Adriaan Michiel (Supervisor)


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