Author’s name:
Natalia Vygovskaya
Abstract:
The article discusses typical features of English postmodern prose as it examines the genre of the novel “Metroland” by J. Barnes. The author analyzes infant imagery as a modern modification of the classic infant imagery of the era of realism and identifies the main components of the poetics of the novel, including its character, plot, composition, and psychology.
| Section | CROSS-CULTURAL ASPECTS OF LITERARY DISCOURSE |
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| Key words | postmodernism, deconstruction, J. Barnes, infant imagery, psychology, urban novel, modified genre of novel of formation. |