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Speaking Magic Realism: Selected Short Stories Of Peter Carey, Raymond Driehuis
Speaking Magic Realism: Selected Short Stories Of Peter Carey, Raymond Driehuis
Theses : Honours
This thesis is an analysis determined by the investigative proposition, what is a magic realist speech act? Of the schools of thought available to any philosophical undertaking in literature, this thesis makes particular use of the principles of speech act theory, genre theory, and poststructuralism. With genre theory, the emphasis is on the subgeneric construction of the narrative structure, and this thesis will incorporate three short stories from Peter Carey's The Fat Man in History as the most overt evidence for what the thesis is proposing to analyse and illuminate. But on the whole, readers will understand that, while …