Self-Reflexivity and Inter-textuality
A Study of Jostein Gaarder 's Sophie's World as a Meta-fictional Work
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22217192 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bushra Osman Sidiq (Kurdistan Regional Government), Ansam Riyadh Abdullah (University of Tikrit) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 105-122 |
| Publication date | 2023-09-30 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE STUDIES (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2616-6224 • E-ISSN: 2663-9033 |
| Publisher | Tikrit University (PUBLISHER • IQ) |
| DOI | 10.25130/jls.7.1.9 |
| OpenAlex | W4391284683 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 1 |
Jostein Gaarder (1952- ) is a Norwegian thinker and author of a great number of novels, short stories, and children's books among them Sophie's World. This novel deals with a number of issues, and uses a lot of postmodern techniques like meta-fiction. This paper is to explain the use of meta-fiction in the concerned novel to the readers as a postmodern element. Sophie's World, besides being a great philosophical one, it contains several meta-fictional elements like: the story has another story within, commenting on the story while telling it; the narrator exposes himself as both: a character and the narrator, and many more elements. The paper is divided into two sections and a conclusion. Section one deals theoretically with meta-fiction, self-reflexivity and inter-textuality as postmodern techniques. Section two is the analysis of the novel. At the end of the paper is the conclusion which will show the findings of the analysis. The paper end with the works cited
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Literature · Reflexivity · Social science · Sociology · Textuality · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Engineering
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |