2016
DOI: 10.17223/19986645/39/12
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Epistemological crisis in Graham Swift's novels Waterland and Last Orders

Abstract: ОТРАЖЕНИЕ ЭПИСТЕМОЛОГИЧЕСКОГО КРИЗИСА В РОМАНАХ ГРЭМА СВИФТА «ВОДОЗЕМЬЕ» И «ПОСЛЕДНИЕ РАСПОРЯЖЕНИЯ». Его творчество оценено престижными премиями и наградами, в том числе Букеровской премией, ко-торой был удостоен роман «Последние распоряжения» в 1996 г. Романы Свифта весьма типичны для современной английской литературы, поскольку в них заострены проблемы истории, времени и осмысления человеком своего места в исторической перспективе.Во второй половине XX в. Великобритания оказалась на переломном эта-пе: серьез… Show more

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“…In the second half of the 20 th century the UK found itself at a turning point: serious changes in the social and political spheres, which led to the decay of the British Empire, the loss of the status of a powerful empire, and catastrophic consequences of two world wars had the public consciousness develop new values; simultaneously, the process of rethinking the past began. The change of the ideological paradigms always leads to a crisis of credibility in the social ideology, thus the tendency of escaping the traumatic reality becomes obvious [7,141].…”
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“…In the second half of the 20 th century the UK found itself at a turning point: serious changes in the social and political spheres, which led to the decay of the British Empire, the loss of the status of a powerful empire, and catastrophic consequences of two world wars had the public consciousness develop new values; simultaneously, the process of rethinking the past began. The change of the ideological paradigms always leads to a crisis of credibility in the social ideology, thus the tendency of escaping the traumatic reality becomes obvious [7,141].…”
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“…First and foremost, it states that performing some actions a person is not always able to predict their implications and importance within the private and public history. Swift illustrates the postmodernist idea that the grand narrative is an illusion, that the various instances of historical reality presented in stories and the various interpretations of historical events must be put together in order to understand the present which is another image of the past [2,7]: 'history merges with fiction, fact gets blurred with fable…' [6,208].…”
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