Abstract

CHATTERTON BETWEEN REALITY AND IMAGINATION AS A POSTMODERN WORK

Mohammed Dhahir Oleiwi Al Tameemi

Volume: 9 Issue: 3 2019

Abstract:

Peter Ackroyd creates a new version of history which is more credible and reliable than History (His/story) because he gives different types of endings in his writing leaving the reader believes according to his/ her mentality. His authenticity comes from the imagination to claim that is reliable and truthful. Authenticity may defined in History as (living history), in a living history donation, or in a chronological renovation, an assess of how close a thing of fabric civilization, or a person's action, is to the known proceedings relating to what was used or done in the time period being represented. While Culture Authenticity is defined as an study of the level to which a book reproduces the worldview of principles and significance and the exact details of everyday life and language for a definite cultural grouping.

Back Download

References

• Ackroyd, Peter Chatterton. Ballantine Books: New York(1998).
• Al-mamoori Mohammed Challenging History of Peter Ackroyd's Chatterton (2015). Master thesis , Cankaya University, Turkey.
• Antakyalıoğlu, Zekiye, “Peter Ackroyd’s Chatterton: History as Taxidermy.” Çankaya University, Faculty of Letters and Science, Journal of Arts and Sciences. Vol. 12, pp. 19 -30. (2009)
• Delgado, Violeta, “The Death of the Author: A Reading of Peter Ackroyd’s Chatterton”. Epos, Vol. 13, pp. 347-360. (1997)
• Gürenci, B. S. Representations of London in Peter Ackroyd's Fiction“The Mystical City Universal”. USA, The Edwin Mellen Press, LTD. (2011)
• Hooti, Noorbakhsh and Tahmasbi, Zahra, “Peter Ackroyd’s Chatterton: A Lyotardian Study.” Canadian Social Science. Vol. 7, No 5, pp. 36-42. (2011)
• Hutcheon, Linda, A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction. Routledge: New York and London. (2004)
• Kristensen, Lars Riber, “Forging the Past: Forgery, Pastiche and Metafiction in Peter Ackroyd’s Chatterton and The Lambs of London” Unpublished Master’s Thesis, Aalborg University. (2009)
• Mandricardo, Alice, “The End of History in English Historiographic Metafiction” Unpublished Doctoral Thesis, Venetiarm University. (2010).
• Onega, Susana (1999). 'Metafiction and Myth in the Novels of Peter Ackroyd'. Camden House: Colombia
• Waugh, Patricia Metafiction: The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction. Routledge: London and New York (2001)
• White, Hyden, Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism. The Johns Hopkins University Press: London. (1978)