A stylistic analysis of Saul Bellow’s Herzog: a mode of ‘postmodern polyphony’

Autor:	Masayuki Teranishi
Rok vydání:	2007
Předmět:	Literature Linguistics and Language Literature and Literary Theory business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Philosophy Context (language use) Postmodernism Language and Linguistics Presentation Embodied cognition Polyphony Consciousness business Plural media_common
Zdroj:	Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics. 16:20-36
ISSN:	1461-7293 0963-9470
DOI:	10.1177/0963947007068655
Popis:	Saul Bellow’s Herzog has been regarded by some critics as a polyphonic novel in which plural voices coexist. However, it has not been fully discussed how polyphony is embodied in the text. In this article, I analyse the speech and thought presentation involved in the characterization of the protagonist. I pay special attention to the fusion of and competition among ‘different versions’ of Herzog and subjectivities of other characters existent in Herzog’s consciousness. From the analysis of selected passages, it is shown how Bellow creates ‘polyphony’ or ‘poly-subjectivization’ in the text, and the place of Herzog in the context of ‘Postmodernism’ is also clarified.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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