그래엄 스위프트의 『늪의 땅』과 소설의 역사성

• Published in: 영미문학연구 Vol. 19; pp. 33 - 52
• Main Authors: 박시영, See-young Park
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Korean
• Published: 영미문학연구회 15.12.2010
• Subjects: fiction; historicality; history; metafiction; novel; past; postmodern; storytelling; 영어와문학
• ISSN: 1976-197X; 2733-4961

A compendium of critical analysis on Graham Swift’s Waterland is dedicated to the narrative experimentation which affirms the resurgence of the Victorian first-person narration in postmodernist fiction. The digressive and metafictional narration performed by the first person narrator Tom Crick in Waterland has been taken to represent a signature property of postmodernist fiction. Yet this alignment of Swift’s narration with postmodernist disbelief in narration falters when Swift defends fictional creation as magical suspension of disbelief in narrative. Swift, as a well-informed reader of postmodernist narrative theories, explores the possible remembering of the past against the much-acclaimed notion of dismembering of the past. He reinstates the act of story telling as a magical and superstitious process of relaying the past which is opposed to postmodernist dissemination of the past as a logical, yet fictional construct.