| Summary: | 碩士 === 淡江大學 === 西洋語文研究所 === 82 === To name or not to name, that is a question. We used to use
language to indicate something or some idea. However,
according to literary critics who hold skeptic view toward
language, to name is not to be. But when there is no other
access to the truth, to name with inevitable contamination of
the meaning becomes the only possible way. Chapter One is the
explication of this theroy. Chapters Two and Three are
exemplifications of this theroy from John Barth's Chimera.
Chapter Two shows how the three novellas in Chimera are common
in their synecdochical theme. Chapter Three is an anatomy of
the metafictional form of Chimera. Embodying the time narrated
(the part) and the time narrating (the whole), the
metafictional form of Chimera is proved to be synecdochical.
|
|---|
