It wisnae me; a big boy did it & ran away (calling Confessions the first
postmodern novel, I mean).
Tak yer point re magic realism, but really shouldn't we front up and say, as
new historicists, that we can inscribe our contemporary concerns on the
texts in question? (But then, I was never an old historicist.)
> Hogg plays the multiple-narrative trick in
> Memoirs&Confessions (as did Emily Bronte in +Wuthering Heights+).
>
> I don't think this is even metaphorically analogous to
> post-modernism. Hogg gives us multiple and conflicting
> narratives (as does Hawthorne on occasion and most obviously
> Durrell in +The Alexandria Quartet+) but he doesn't challenge
> the narrative structure itself.
Whose narrative structure?
> In some ways (eg in introducing himself as a character into
> his own fiction) Hogg seems close to Borges and Marquez.
>
> Generically, a version of magic realism before its time.
>
> What Sterne is doing is different, and to my mind,
> considerably more strange.
You know what Sterne is doing at the beginning of Sentimental Journey, of
course?
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