Problematics and Composition Originality of P. Ackroyd’s Novel “The Plato Papers”

The composition of the novel by the modern English writer P. Ackroyd “The Plato Papers” in connection with the problems of the work is considered. The review of the last researches devoted to creativity of this author is given. Attention is paid to how the work reveals the problem of interpretation...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:01cf00e054424f0889afd8ac4066e01e2021-12-02T07:58:07ZProblematics and Composition Originality of P. Ackroyd’s Novel “The Plato Papers”2225-756X2227-129510.24224/2227-1295-2019-3-192-201https://doaj.org/article/01cf00e054424f0889afd8ac4066e01e2019-03-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.nauka-dialog.ru/jour/article/view/1107https://doaj.org/toc/2225-756Xhttps://doaj.org/toc/2227-1295The composition of the novel by the modern English writer P. Ackroyd “The Plato Papers” in connection with the problems of the work is considered. The review of the last researches devoted to creativity of this author is given. Attention is paid to how the work reveals the problem of interpretation of history, its ambiguity, the concept of the movement of time, progress, the relationship of the past, present and future. The author shows that when shifting the time of the novel in the future, Ackroyd uses the documentary imitation technique, changes narrators and types of narration. The composition of the work consisting of separate small parts connected in a key way by the speaker Plato is analyzed. Such properties of the composition of the analyzed novel as fragmentation and nonlinearity are noted. It is shown how the novel realizes postmodern idea about the relativity of the interpretations of the events of the past. The position of the main character endowed with the gift of insight, able to penetrate into the past, to look from an unusual point of view at the present, to doubt and seek the truth is revealed.E. V. UshakovaTsentr nauchnykh i obrazovatelnykh proektovarticlecompositionp. ackroyd“the plato papers”postmodernismironybiographyhistorypostmodern gameSlavic languages. Baltic languages. Albanian languagesPG1-9665RUНаучный диалог, Vol 0, Iss 3, Pp 192-201 (2019)
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topic composition
p. ackroyd
“the plato papers”
postmodernism
irony
biography
history
postmodern game
Slavic languages. Baltic languages. Albanian languages
PG1-9665
spellingShingle composition
p. ackroyd
“the plato papers”
postmodernism
irony
biography
history
postmodern game
Slavic languages. Baltic languages. Albanian languages
PG1-9665
E. V. Ushakova
Problematics and Composition Originality of P. Ackroyd’s Novel “The Plato Papers”
description The composition of the novel by the modern English writer P. Ackroyd “The Plato Papers” in connection with the problems of the work is considered. The review of the last researches devoted to creativity of this author is given. Attention is paid to how the work reveals the problem of interpretation of history, its ambiguity, the concept of the movement of time, progress, the relationship of the past, present and future. The author shows that when shifting the time of the novel in the future, Ackroyd uses the documentary imitation technique, changes narrators and types of narration. The composition of the work consisting of separate small parts connected in a key way by the speaker Plato is analyzed. Such properties of the composition of the analyzed novel as fragmentation and nonlinearity are noted. It is shown how the novel realizes postmodern idea about the relativity of the interpretations of the events of the past. The position of the main character endowed with the gift of insight, able to penetrate into the past, to look from an unusual point of view at the present, to doubt and seek the truth is revealed.
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title Problematics and Composition Originality of P. Ackroyd’s Novel “The Plato Papers”
title_short Problematics and Composition Originality of P. Ackroyd’s Novel “The Plato Papers”
title_full Problematics and Composition Originality of P. Ackroyd’s Novel “The Plato Papers”
title_fullStr Problematics and Composition Originality of P. Ackroyd’s Novel “The Plato Papers”
title_full_unstemmed Problematics and Composition Originality of P. Ackroyd’s Novel “The Plato Papers”
title_sort problematics and composition originality of p. ackroyd’s novel “the plato papers”
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