META-CITY: THE IMAGE OF A CAPITAL CITY IN BRITISH POSTMODERN LITERATURE (ON THE WORKS OF PETER ACKROYD)

Shubina Aleksandra Vladimirovna

DOI: 10.23951/2312-7899-2019-2-138-151

Information About Author:

Aleksandra V. Shubina, Saint-Petersburg Branch of Russian Customs academy named after V. B. Bobkov, Russia. E-mail: alex.v.shubina@gmail.com

The paper studies the phenomenon of a non-personal biography, a biography of a cultural object, based on the works of Peter Ackroyd, a modern British writer who became well-knows at the edge of 20–21 centuries with his biographical books about famous Britishers as well as meta-fictional historical novels. The work presents a vision of the biography of the city as a genre that provides for the author and the reader a way for personification of comprehension and experiencing of a national history and culture as an event of private life, thus transforming a historical fact into a piece of personal biography.

Keywords: image of the city, British literature, city narrative, national identity, memory, postmodern literature, cultural code

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Issue: 2, 2019

Series of issue: Issue 2

Rubric: RESEARCH REPORTS

Pages: 138 — 151

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