Space and Place in Revisionist Narratives: Georg Johannesen's Kassandra and Christa Wolf's Kassandra

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dc.contributor.authorBronte, Patricia Kathleen, 1984-
dc.date.accessioned2009-10-19T23:19:02Z
dc.date.available2009-10-19T23:19:02Z
dc.date.issued2009-06
dc.descriptionix, 60 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.en_US
dc.description.abstractThe revisionist narrative is a sub-genre of postmodernist literature, in which established narratives are re-written from a perspective for which they did not account. This term goes beyond "historiographic metafiction" to include fictional narratives, because both historical and fictional narratives can illustrate many possible representations for the event in question. The treatment of space and place are central points at which revisionist narratives expose dominant power systems during the author's own era and offer new possibilities of reality to the readers. Georg Johannesen's play Kassandra and Christa Wolf's novel Kassandra change the perspective of landscape in Homer's The Iliad to reveal underlying power structures and to emphasize the rejection of absolute truths; these power structures in ancient Troy then point to parallel power structures in the contemporary societies of the authors. In this manner, landscape within revisionist narratives is essential for exposing the malleability of perspective in history and fiction.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipCommittee in Charge: Dr. Susan C. Anderson, Co-Chair; Dr. Ellen Rees, Co-Chair; Dr. Martin Klebes; Dr. Kenneth Scott Calhoonen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/9854
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregonen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesUniversity of Oregon theses, Dept. of German and Scandinavian, M.A., 2009;
dc.subjectJohannesen, Georg, 1931- Kassandraen_US
dc.subjectWolf, Christa. Kassandraen_US
dc.subjectKassandra
dc.titleSpace and Place in Revisionist Narratives: Georg Johannesen's Kassandra and Christa Wolf's Kassandraen_US
dc.title.alternativeGeorg Johannesen's Kassandra and Christa Wolf's Kassandraen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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