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T1 From Romanticism to Postmodernity: Two Different Conceptions of Nature in Julian Barnes, A History of the World in IOV2 Chapters
A1 Candel Borman, Daniel
AB This paper argues for assessing Julian Barnes’ treatment of thenature-theme in A History of the World in 10½ Chapters as Postmodern.It does so by analysing the ideological tensions that arise from its appearancein chapter 4; and by trying to account for their resolution in“Parenthesis”, the novel’s most authoritative chapter. The paper startsby presenting evidence for the fact that the tensions referred to are acommonplace in current feminist and ecological debates. Such evidenceaims on the one hand at validating the thematic analysis, on the other atstressing that these ideological tensions are rooted in Modernity. Tofind a way out of the Modern aporias, this paper draws on the differencesbetween Modern and Postmodern views on “nature”; as well ason their differing conceptions of the relationship between natural andhuman sciences. These differences provide a basis for establishing thedegree to which the development of the nature-motif in “Parenthesis”is Postmodern or not.
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