Going Back to One’s Roots: The Revival of Oral Storytelling Techniques in The English Contemporary Novel

Ana Cristina Băniceru

doi:10.2478/v10319-012-0018-7

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Going Back to One’s Roots: The Revival of Oral Storytelling Techniques in The English Contemporary Novel

Romanian Journal of English Studies

Volume 9 (2012): Issue 1 (December 2012)

By: Ana Cristina Băniceru

Open Access

|Feb 2013

Abstract

My paper examines the interplay between the sophisticated postmodernist techniques of intertextuality, parody, metafiction and a return to orality or better said of pseudo-orality, a simulated-oral discourse or what the Russian Formalists called “skaz”, brought about by much postcolonial, ethnic or feminist literature.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10319-012-0018-7 | Journal eISSN: 2286-0428 (formerly 1584-3734) | Journal ISSN: 1584-3734

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Language: English

Page range: 166 - 181

Published online: Feb 21, 2013

Published in print: Dec 1, 2012

Published by: West University of Timisoara

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